New Chicks! 8-22 Two Silkies Hatched! Pics Added!

[MamaSheepdog]

On Sunday I bought 4 Black Australorps, 4 Buff Orpingtons, and 4 Americaunas. Queenpup's feed store Sillkie, Cotton, has been broody, so she is their foster mommy. No chicks under a lamp in the house for me this time!

Here they are snuggled up with Cotton the first evening:



Having breakfast:




Contrast Cotton to Queenpups show quality (hopefully!) Silkies:

 

[MaggieJ]

Broody-raised chicks are so much nicer than brooder chicks! Congrats on the lil peepers!

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Wooooo, so cute!!

 

[Cattle Cait]

Adorable! Looks like your hen is diving right into motherhood.

 

[skysthelimit]

Ohhhh, so cute. I want my chickens back!!!

 

[MamaSheepdog]

Two of Cotton's eggs hatched today, and another is pipping! They are the tiniest little things.

Meeting the "big" chicks, while Cotton supervises:



Queenpup holding the new arrivals:

 

[tnelsonfla]

Australorps are my favorite chickens of all time, nice, big, quite and brown eggs layers.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

I love my Australorps too! They are such calm, sweet birds... and very pretty too, I think.