It has been a busy week. The kids are home on vacation, I started an herbal apprenticeship at a local farm and our chicks hatched! Thursday made 21 days and sure enough the eggs began to pip in the morning. During many, many random checks throughout the day(talk about being distracted!) we saw the eggs rocking and very often little peeps could be heard coming from the eggs. By evening more cracks were evident.
Around seven the first chick busted his way out, peeping loudly and wobbling all over the place.
We saw two more hatch before we finally went to bed. In the morning we were greeted by five little balls of fluff intermittently peeping and napping. All the eggs successfully hatched! Making a transition to the brooder went smoothly and they all seem to be adjusting well to life outside the egg!
Now comes the hard part-trying to figure out which are girls and which are boys.
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