Egg-tra Egg-tra Egg-cited!!!!

There is so much excitement happening around our little farm. We have babies hatchin! It all started yesterday when Cappie made her daily (one of many) trips to the coop. She found that one of the nest had been invaded by ants and the mom has abandoned the eggs. As she was gathering the eggs she noticed pippin. She carefully brought the eggs and placed them in the incubater (we have 32 eggs in the bater- w/ 10 more days to go). This morning we woke to a little chick crawling all over the other eggs.

This morning when we walked to the coop to feed and let the chickens out, we went inside to check on our sitting hens. One of the moms had gone out to eat so we examined her eggs. She had 3 pippin. One was really working hard at breaking free from its egg. Naturally I came back to the house to grab my camera. When we returned to the coop the mom was back on her eggs. Now all you can hear is lots of little baby chicky noises!!! I LOVE IT!!! We have I believe 5 hens sitting. Some only have a few eggs under them, while others have as many as 19. As the mama hen would leave her nest to feed, others would jump in her nest and lay their eggs. We did not bother them since we were unsure of the new ones and the ones that had been there a while. Either way, we have tons of little babies about the hatch.

Here is what our nesting boxes look like at the moment.

This is the mom with 19 eggs under her! She is going to be a good mama. (Glad it's her and not me who will be runnin all those little ones.)

This mama hatched her two little ones last week. I love watching them hitch a ride on mama's back.