She has 5 Cream Legbar chicks hatched so far and 5 eggs yet to hatch (3 more Cream Legbars and 2 Araucanas)
Aren't they cute!
Week 1 - Day 4
10 years ago
Sunday, 30 May 2010
2nd Hatch! (so far)
Well after a near disaster with our 2nd broody's eggs, she finally has some chicks to raise!
She has 5 Cream Legbar chicks hatched so far and 5 eggs yet to hatch (3 more Cream Legbars and 2 Araucanas)
Aren't they cute!
She has 5 Cream Legbar chicks hatched so far and 5 eggs yet to hatch (3 more Cream Legbars and 2 Araucanas)
Aren't they cute!
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Our first hatch!!!
Well hatch day has arrived!!! Our Cuckoo Marans has successfully hatched 4 baby marans chicks!!! woohoo!! one is brown (so will be wheaten in colour) and the other 3 are black (and will be either cuckoo or copper black).
I managed to get a picture of 3 of them:
Oh and I finally got a few pics of all 4 of them:
I managed to get a picture of 3 of them:
Oh and I finally got a few pics of all 4 of them:
Robins update
Well I noticed on Saturday that mother robin was off her nest, so I had a peek... and saw 2 babies!!
I managed to get another peek in last night, and definitely saw 6 little mouths - so well done mother robin!!!
I managed to get another peek in last night, and definitely saw 6 little mouths - so well done mother robin!!!
Thursday, 20 May 2010
The tree in our graden
We have a lovely big cedar tree in our garden:
But the children noticed something in the tree.... So they built this to spy on it:
Can you see what they saw in the cleft of the tree???
That is a British Robin... and she is sitting on 6 lovely little eggs!
But the children noticed something in the tree.... So they built this to spy on it:
Can you see what they saw in the cleft of the tree???
That is a British Robin... and she is sitting on 6 lovely little eggs!
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Local Agricultural Show
The children decided to enter one of our chickens and some of our eggs into the local county agricultural show. They ended up doing very well!!
Here they are with their prizes:
Mr Man won 3rd prize with his brown egg.
Little Miss won 1st prize in the Junior Section with our Wheaten Marans hen.
Little Man won 1st prize in the Junior Painted egg section with his painted egg.
Well done children!!
Here they are with their prizes:
Mr Man won 3rd prize with his brown egg.
Little Miss won 1st prize in the Junior Section with our Wheaten Marans hen.
Little Man won 1st prize in the Junior Painted egg section with his painted egg.
Well done children!!
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Hatching Eggs
Here are some of the hatching eggs we are going to put under our broody hens
On the left we have Copper Blue Marans eggs and on the right - the brown ones are a cross between Copper Blue Marans (hens)and Araucana (cockeral). The light coloured ones (they are actually blue, but hard to see in the picture) are Cream Legbar eggs.
Should be fun fun fun around here in 3 weeks time when they hatch :D
On the left we have Copper Blue Marans eggs and on the right - the brown ones are a cross between Copper Blue Marans (hens)and Araucana (cockeral). The light coloured ones (they are actually blue, but hard to see in the picture) are Cream Legbar eggs.
Should be fun fun fun around here in 3 weeks time when they hatch :D
Growing chicks and broody hens
Here are some pics of our meat chicks - now 9weeks old
And now 2 of our hens have gone broody!
Cuckoo
Henrietta
And now 2 of our hens have gone broody!
Cuckoo
Henrietta
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)