We have Babies!!!

I was walking out to the barn to do chores yesterday when I heard all this peeping and squaking. Peeping??? Peeping!!! Yes, we have 4 baby chicks. Mom is doing a great job! (I know, I know, for all you naysayers out there that said incubator hatched chickens won't sit on a nest and raise their own chicks.... I have 4 examples of how much that is NOT true!!!!)


So, Jeckyl, my little rooster man, who came all the way back from South Carolina with me two years ago is still strutting his stuff! He's a banty mix... the girls are golden comets, buff orpington (pictured), and silver laced wyandotte - a pair of each - there were 5 eggs out of 8 that hatched, but only the four made it.... so.....

We have babies!!! Yeah!!! It's so much easier having mom raise them than me doing it... and if they lay a batch each year in the spring ( I know, I know it was kinda late, but we have enough facilities to keep them warm and they will feather out before the cold weather gets here) we will have a whole flock!!!!

So, I went from 2 roosters; to 1 rooster and 6 hens; to 1 rooster and 11 hens; to 1 rooster, 11 hens and 4 BABIES!!!!!! My little flock is growing and we are getting about 6 eggs a day .. the teenagers will be laying by October so I will have about 9 - 12 eggs a day... wow.

We have babies!!!!!