Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Baby Chickens

Hilda and Lucy when I first bought them in June this year, funny looking things...

Now Lucy and Hilda are mums to 4 baby chickens and this is the day the eggs hatched, right on time on Thursday 17 November, 21 days after the fertile eggs were placed under Hilda. I had 7 fertile eggs, 1 egg was cracked by the mum's, 1 never hatched and 1 chicken I found dead and not formed properly.

Only a few hours old

A day or two old

Let me in too...


Lucy and Hilda are fantastic mums and very protective





Another little one pushing it's way through to be with it's siblings.

What a fantastic experience sitting and watching the baby chickens and mother hens, interacting together. I am loving the whole experience :)
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2 comments:

  1. Hiep1 December 2011 at 17:03

    Hi! Just found your blog off the homeone forum and love it. Lucky you for having such an immense garden, and two very plump chooks to keep the bugs off :) And their chickies are adorable!

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  2. Kristy7 December 2011 at 15:15

    Thanks hiep for visiting, I love visitors :)

    Kristy

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