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Day 20 for Tiger Lilys babies and I've just got home from work and went straight out to check on her to find one of the Poland eggs pipping and cheeping :dance: I'm ridiculously excited :dance: We've done countless hatches so far in the incubator this year but this is the first time we've ever used a broody. It's been so much fun and so much easier. Tiger Lily is a real trooper, I'm so proud of her dedication to the task. She obviously loves being a mother, she was so good with the Brahma babies we bought her with earlier on this year. I don't know how I'll sleep tonight and I know I'll be sprinting out the back door first thing tomorrow to see what's hatched. It's a complete surprise because none of the Poland eggs were labelled and all we know is that we started out with silver laced, chamois, one crele and one white crested black, some frizzle, some not. 4/7 were fertile but we don't know what! Plus she's on two blue buff columbian bantam Brahmas too :D

 

It's sooooooooooo exciting! :dance::dance::dance:

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We have a Brahma :dance: Last nights Poland is a weirdy dark chocolate brown colour, I assume it's the crele. I can't imagine silver laced or chamois would start off that colour :shock: Or have I got an exceedingly rare chocolate Poland that I can sell for a billion quid? :lol:

 

The other eggs are still cheeping away and Tiger Lily is sat tight.

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Baby Brahma will be the only Brahma in the brood because the other baby Brahma was dead in it's shell :( I candled it last night and saw it had pipped internally so was hopeful it'd be out today but twice Tiger Lily had kicked the egg out. So after the second time I brought it inside to candle it and there was no sign of life. I carefully broke the shell at the air sac end and it was immediately clear the reason it couldn't get out was it had a twisted beak. The kids insisted I took it out of it's shell and then we discovered it only had one eye. Poor little thing had absorbed the yolk and was ready to be born but Mother Nature hadn't quite built him right :(

 

The remaining Poland egg seems to be doing ok, it's got a nice big hole we can see into and it's cheeping quite merrily. Tiger Lily is still sat on it and is contentedly cooing at her other babies who are running around her. White crested black has been eating and drinking already. Silver laced is absolutely stunning, all the kids said "Wow!" when they saw it!

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All done. Five gorgeous babies :D

 

White crested black Poland complaining loudly about the weather!

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One of the silver laced:

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The other silver laced:

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Crele Poland:

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Blue buff columbian Brahma:

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One intrepid silver laced contemplated braving the wind outside:

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