[Sudanpan]

Our maran hen has successfully hatched out 2 chicks    She finally brought them out to the big wide world today so we had proof positive that there were some chicks - after being teased with possible reports of cheeping being heard, but impossible to get past a very defensive broody to confirm!


Over the last 3 days I have removed 15 eggs and 1 dead chick (looks like it just never got going after coming out of the shell    ) so Demi (the hen) had been sitting on up to 18 eggs! This might have been the cause of some of the problems, the other 2 laying hens were really adamant they wanted to lay in the broody nest and in hindsight I should have prevented it which would have meant the original eggs would have had better care.


We have 1 black and 1 goldie chick - same combination as the other 2 chicks that Demi's sister Copper successfully hatched 2 months ago    As for the sexes, I have no idea as yet, though the goldie chick looks like it has the black back stripe of a female legbar , but we shall see.

[Daisys Mum]

  Hope they weather stays good for a few weeks for them

[little blue]

aw, congratulations!
very sweet

[doganjo]

It's getting very cold, hope they feather up enough to get through the winter.  Very late hatching.  Love to see progress photos.

[Mammyshaz]

Lovely to see  hope the frosts keep away for you a bit longer then  two will fit lovely and snug under mum at night better than 18