Chicken madness!

 I'm a little late posting the weekly photos, but alas they are here! Yep, these EE's are 5 weeks old and of course we have a few more with combs turning color. This has me worried that me we have more roosters. It is very hard to determine sex, even with looking at legs, combs, vents, feathers it can all be so confusing. So for now, we will just wait until they get older or maybe when they start crowing.

As for mama and her babies, they are doing FANTASTIC! Oh my word these babies are getting big so fast. I am so in love with these little balls of fluff already starting to feather. My only regret is not being able to hatch more so we had more girls than boys. Oh well, there's always next time!

Speaking of more chicks, as if we don't already have enough chickens, we decided that since we have yet another broody hen we would put her to good use.

 

Meet Spice, a Silver-laced Cochin. The look on her face shows such disgust that I pulled her out of the nesting boxes. I am hoping she turns out to be a good brooder and mama, only time will tell. Not sure as to how many eggs we are gonna try to have her hatch out.  It will be within the next couple of days that we put eggs under her, separated from everyone else. She will be hatching out more Easter Eggers as we are down to just 1 rooster now. It will be interesting to see what these chicks look like, their moms will be Sicilian Buttercup, Black Langshan, Australorp, Brown Leghorn, Ancona, and Silver-grey Dorking. 

This will be the first time we will ever have a hen hatch out chicks, which is really exciting! No worrying about temperature, humidity, turning, and all the constant checking. Talk about worry free, sort of. We will still need to keep an eye on Spice to make sure she continues to sit on the eggs and not give up half way through, or any other things that could go wrong. Crossing fingers!