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[craftyhunnypie]

Hi - I'm chick sitting for my sitter. They hatched Thursday night & early hours yesterday. They are gorgeous! The father is a Vorwerk & the mothers are Amber star & Warren. I have white, gingery & ginger with black stripes chicks. They were brought to me in their special chick box (from Wernlas) & put in my brooder. I have them until next weekend, as my sister has gone to Cornwall & trusted me more than her mother in law to look after them.

They are quite lively this morning & have started pecking at the chick crumbs & drinking. She has another 12 eggs due to hatch next weekend, but the gamekeeper has those in his special incubator & will see that the hatch goes well.

It's nice having chicks in the house again.

I have eggs of my own to candle this weekend too. Fingers crossed they are fertile, as I could hatch some blue egg layers.

 

Emma.x

[Karen & co.]

How lovely Will you be able to give them back though

 

Karen x

[BeckyBoo]

How lovely, I would LOVE a blue egg layer - my Araucauna egg didn't hatch but I have got a cream legbar that came from a very bluish egg so I've got my fingers crossed. Watch them closely, they grow SO fast - ours are now 7 days old and they already little wings and stubby little proper feathers. Hatching chicks has been one of the best things I think I have EVER done!

How are you going to give them back?

 

Mrs B

[craftyhunnypie]

It will be very difficult to hand them back! I can already see the little quills of their wing feathers & some ' bum fluff' sprouting from them. They are beautiful. Will be candling my eggs tonight, so I suppose that will make it a bit easier to hand back the chicks, knowing that I've got some due soon.

But I have fell in love with one of these in particular. My sister calls it Magica, after Mr. magica - because it head a sticky up bit on its head when hatched. They are very lively today, as they have gained more balance on their little tiny orange feet.

 

Emma.x

[craftyhunnypie]

Well I've really loved chick sitting them, but the time has come tomorrow for my sister to collect them & take them home. I've got quite attatched to them. They all have little wing feathers & bum fluffy tail feathers starting. I think they are all the same sex, whatever that may be, as all feathering up at the same rate & the same places.

So sad that I have to hand them back - but loved having them.

 

Emma.x

[Karen & co.]

It's a shame you have to hand them back but hopefully you'll have some more of your own soon

 

Karen x