Norbert
4/04/2011 | Author:

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Ameraucana Chick
4/04/2011 | Author:
 Here she is! All dried, and poofy---the little large fowl white ameraucana chick that hatched earlier today.

She's one of the fluffiest chicks I have ever seen, with a big fat muff and beard, and blue legs.


 Rico likes his little name-less friend.




 I just like them both; you see the color difference in their legs in the picture above?

 I'm going to come up with a name for her real soon. :)
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Sadly, the second polish chick didn't make it; I'm not positive what was wrong, but it did seem weak, and I wasn't super surprised that the little bugger couldn't pull through. I am a bit disappointed though.

Tomorrow, the two Survivor lav-ameraucana bantam eggs are due to hatch---hopefully they both will. :) And also tomorrow, the Orpington eggs are going into lock-down.
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4/04/2011 | Author:

Just awesome. :)
Love them both---Steven Tyler, and Carrie Underwood.
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Chickhun
4/04/2011 | Author:
 This is Rico; he's the little white-crested black polish bantam that hatched yesterday; he's all dried off now, and is waddling around the brooder.


 He has some company now too; two Auction/Survivor eggs have hatched today, the first, a LF white ameraucana chick, who has just joined him in the brooder to finish drying.

The poor baby looks a little goofy right now, but will dry off nicely, and I'll take more pictures then. Out of the three chicks that hatched, this ameraucana's hatch was easiest, considering the broken air-sac.

The third chick is another polish bantam, who just now made it out of his/her shell---and appears to be another white-crested, though we'll see.

This chick seems to come out a bit early; he pecked a nice big hole in the top of his egg, and rolled out with quite a bit of blood, so I'm nervous that he might not make it---but we're just have to see! He looks weak, but them little buggers are strong. They survived Zeb and Duke, after all.
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I also threw out a BBS LF orpington egg---which, was about to explode; it was leaking some nasty yolk, so I tossed it. Lol. So THAT's what was smelling so bad! Apparently I let that rotten egg get a bit too far, since I can't candle the Orp eggs well. :)

Crisis diverted.
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Some Pictures from Grandma's
4/03/2011 | Author:








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Hatched!
4/03/2011 | Author:
With quite a bit of my assistance, the little polish chick has made it out, and is drying in the newly set-up brooder!

The little chick was shrink-wrapped inside the shell the whole while I was at Grandma's, with its wing plastered over the side of its face. With some warm water and gentle peeling, I got her out, and she's doing much better now, though there is still some membrane stuck to her wing---I'm working on getting that off.

She's a little white-crested black polish chick, just as I guessed. :) I'll post pictures soon as she's all-fluff.

As for the other eggs...no action since early this morning/afternoon.
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Hatching
4/03/2011 | Author:
This morning one of the Auction/Survivor eggs (polish bantam) piped, and is cracking.
It didn't pip through the normal area of the egg, and instead piped straight up; I'm at my Grandma's house right now, but a few hours ago (when we left home) it had quite a bit of shell off, so I'm hoping it can make it through without me being there.

It seemed to be black, so maybe I've got a little white-crested in there?

The second polish egg is wiggling, and I think one of the LF ameraucana eggs was wiggling also, though that might have been my imagination.

Fingers crossed! The air-sacs on these eggs are weird, so hopefully the chicks aren't deformed.

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Today, and Yesterday
4/02/2011 | Author:
I really wanted to finish the mowing; and guess when the one day that the mower decides to act up is?
Yup, today.

I got a little bit done, but now it's sputtering and gagging and pulling at the reins, so it's sitting in time-out on the hillside until Dad gets home and is able to look at it. In the meanwhile, Mom helped me clean the Big Coop, and it looks better now.
Yesterday Quinn and me got the Duck House and the Bantam Coop all cleaned out, and put all the baby chicks/ducklings in the Bantam Coop; the goats spent the night in the Duck House, and the chickens from the Bantam Coop stayed in the other coop instead. It all worked very well, and I also moved the game-chicks from my bedroom out into the Bantam Coop---they were way over-due to be outside, and were driving me insane.

Speaking of chicks---one of the polish bantam eggs from the Auction is wiggling today! A Survivor egg, I'm hoping it'll hatch. All the Auction eggs are due tomorrow, and have been in lock-down.
Last time I candled the Survivor eggs they seemed to have developed half-way. Something's up with their air-sacs, broken perhaps, though I'm not sure. I'm thinking I may still get one or two chicks...so am hoping for the best.

Now, here's some pictures I took after my Mom was done using the macro lens this afternoon. :)










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From The Last Rain
4/02/2011 | Author:
 I meant to post these a few days ago...from the most recent rain; today is actually pretty sunny, but the wind is cold!












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