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Post by whollygoats on Jun 16, 2013 19:04:50 GMT
Sonja, my Rhode Island Red hen, has just become a momma hen, or mother hen.
She went broody about three weeks back, so we sent word out to the farm for some fertilized eggs (by Junior, a recent Ravenswood graduate), picked them up, and placed them under Sonja, and placed her in the nesting basket inside the secure garden shed (which is still a mess from the feathering of a dozen chicks earlier this spring).
Her dutiful brooding has produced at least one baby chick. It is black. Even more, it is black on black. Shiny black eyes and beak against a soft matt black of chick fluff. Not easy to seen in the dark recesses under Sonja.
More gallus gallus! It shall be fun watching the new momma take her little ones out and about.
More to come....Including pix, of course!
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Post by JoeP on Jun 16, 2013 19:32:46 GMT
Peep peep!
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 17, 2013 5:37:56 GMT
My count of hatchlings this evening is up to five.
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Post by jayme on Jun 17, 2013 11:14:42 GMT
Peeppeeppeeppeeppeep!
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 18, 2013 5:30:12 GMT
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Post by JoeP on Jun 18, 2013 8:53:06 GMT
Little black balls of fluff!
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Post by charliebrown on Jun 18, 2013 8:55:42 GMT
AHHHH! Cuteness invasion!
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 18, 2013 9:09:22 GMT
Chicks are supposed to be yellow! The law of Easter decorations says so!
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Post by JoeP on Jun 18, 2013 9:11:28 GMT
But whollygoats is an evil Satan-worshipping atheist. So his hens' chicks have to be black. That's a law too.
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Post by jayme on Jun 18, 2013 10:48:20 GMT
Aww! Satan's little minions are so cute!
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 18, 2013 19:14:39 GMT
That Santa....he's a sneaky one, corrupting cute foofy little baby chicks to lead us all astray.
And, 'minions'? Is that anything like 'onions'? O, mi....
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 18, 2013 19:16:37 GMT
But whollygoats is an evil Satan-worshipping atheist. So his hens' chicks have to be black. That's a law too. Satan-worshipping atheist? Uh...atheist, yes. But Satan is some kind of Abrahamic character, no? That's something that those Crispians worship.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 18, 2013 19:44:38 GMT
I notice you don't question the 'evil' part
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 18, 2013 21:11:28 GMT
Uh...
O, yeah....
Of course not!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2013 6:15:09 GMT
Cute!
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Post by tangent on Jun 19, 2013 7:07:03 GMT
Brilliant photo.
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Post by Mari on Jun 19, 2013 16:16:33 GMT
Awww
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 21, 2013 9:06:58 GMT
They are soo cyoooot! Black chickies are adorable!
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 21, 2013 14:39:51 GMT
I am inordinately amused that one of the little foofy black chicks has a Turken heritage. In this case, the layer of the egg was a Turken hen. This means she has no feathering on her neck; also known as 'naked neck' chickens. The little foofy black chick has a band of no fluff around its neck.
My little redneck.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 21, 2013 18:13:43 GMT
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Post by Moose on Jun 21, 2013 19:27:21 GMT
They are lovely But I remember when I helped Ol hatch chicks once and it was ... painful . They died one by one (the ones that did hatch) and one came out as a real mess, sort of stuck to the shell.
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