Three little hatchlings

   As you might have guessed from the title of this post three of the eggs hatched. We might have had four, but the first little chick fell out of the nest at some point after we checked that day and Mohawk hopped out to sit on her (hopefully a her), and apparently it long enough between her hopping off and mom and me checking on them for the other chick, who had only chipped a small hole in her egg, to catch a draft, because she didn't make it out of the egg.

  3 out of 8 isn't the best results, but we were a little haphazard about putting eggs under Mohawk. Truthfully, we didn't think she'd see it all the way through. So, we ended up with eggs due to hatch a week apart. Oops. And we probably shouldn't have left her in the henhouse. Next time were going to be more careful, put all the eggs under her one day, and move her to the brooder house that day.

  But on a lighter note These are some cute chicks. As you can see two of them are black with white/pale yellow spots. The larger one is the oldest who we are calling handful. She barely has any white on her, just a triangular bib and a white butt. She runs circles around Mohawk and likes to sit on her back, sometimes she hitches a ride on Mohawk's back when she is walking around.

  The little brown one (we call her a calico) is the second hatched. She came out of a blue egg so she is one of the Ameraucana girl's. She is more sedate and if you look closely looks like Grandpa Munster or a opossum. We call her Grandma Munster and sometime 'possum. She only sits on Mohawk when she's sitting down so; far hence the more sedate.


  The youngest has the most white on her and has those cute fluffy Ameraucana cheeks; which makes her head look gigantic. She hatched last Saturday and seems kind of slow, but that's probably because we're comparing her to chicks that are much older. So far we're calling her 'little bit'.

Mohawk did not like the camera one bit, and ended up attacking it. By the way Bats Bizarre is having a Memorial Day sale. Use coupon code MEMORIALDAY for 10% off your purchase. Discount  doesn't include shipping cost.
     
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