The chicks hatched!

This is a story of life.

2 weeks ago we lost many chickens; they were attacked and eaten during the night (probably by a fox).

However during this time we had our first mother that decided it was time to hatch a clutch of eggs. She's been diligently sitting on these eggs for 3 weeks, and she hatched most of them yesterday.

We have no real idea what these mongrel babies will look like. We had (and lost) many different breeds and she was sitting on more than her own eggs. It’s not obvious to us novice chicken breeders what these chickens will turn into. Color of down does not seem to correlate well to color of chicken. We do know that we have one with “head gear” because he/she already has a pompom on it’s head. It’s also orange, and we lost all our orange “head gear” chickens.

So maybe, just maybe we have a small piece of our favorite chickens that we lost. It makes for a good story about life.

We also have 39 new chicks coming on July 11th … stay tuned.