When Chicks sleep.......

They look so innocent and adorable!! :)

The gang sleeps together....

sniffing one's bottom while sleeping....

sleeping on one another...

Chicks Hatch Day - Day 4 20May

We tried putting  "Little" chick #7 together with the rest yesterday morning but it was been pecked and bullied. So we decided to let it stay in the incubator for another day to get stronger.

Today, I place "Little" together with the rest of the chicks and monitored.... All chicks started pecking on "Little" and "Little" peck back. For some reason, they love to peck each other eyes. :Little" doesn't seem to be well accepted by the rest, they leave "Little" on its own, all 6 chicks slept and huddle together and  "Little" slept on its own...It's obvious "Little" is smaller in size too, perhapes that's why it did not get into the rest of the gang.

 you can see  "Little" on the right sleeping on its own.

oops, I startled them and all of them woke up. "Little" is standing at the far end on the right.

"Little" being on its own again.....

Chick Hatch Day- Day 2 18May

Surprise Surprise! One more egg hatched today! Poor little fellow was alone in the incubator with no friends.

Chick Number 7

colour: brownish

Time of Birth: 3.10pm

Chicks hatch day- The day after

And the fluffiness begins!

At one day old, they are cute, still wobbling around and sleeps alot! They also get distracted at the slightest sound... The most interesting sight is seeing them nod themselves to sleep and wake up suddenly when they hear a sound. 2seconds later, they are nodding themselves to sleep again!

all huddling together....

having a nibble

and off to snooze again.....

2 pale yellow chicks...probably 1st and 2nd Chick

one (only) stripey one having a snooze...

Hatch Day 16May 2010....more hatching to come

Number One asking the rest to Line up! Attention!

Name: 2nd Chick
Time of birth: 1:39pm
Color: Yellowish

Name: 3rd Chick
Time of birth: 2.44pm
Color: Black-brown

2nd & 3rd Chick

Name: 4th Chick

Time of birth: 

Color: black-brown

3rd & 4th Chick

Name: 5th Chick

Time of birth: 7.45pm

Color: black-brown

Name: 6th Chick

Time of birth: 8.39pm

Color: yellow-brown

nearly there!

Free at last!

struggling with itself...

5th&6th Chick

Hatch Day 16May 2010

Today is hatch day...it's also Priscilla's birthday!

Woke up at 8.15am and I can hear chirping sound...Off I went to check on the eggs and surprise surprise, there's a new born!

Let's trace back what time this chick is born.....

3.50am

8.20am

this chick is still wet and need to get dried before we can remove it from the incubator.

wobble wobble and off to sleep again....this chick was sleeping and waking up almost every 30seconds....

And while we are eager about the new born....we have not neglected the oldies...Craig got some hay and wheat for the 3girls and boy are they excited!

Chicks "Peeking" Begins.....

One more day to hatch day....and we can start to see piping from one egg...

Three or Four chicks?

We should have done the candling last week to check on the eggs but we only them yesterday. It was an amazing experience witnessing the little movements happening inside the eggs. There should be 3 or 4 possible chicks and we are not sure about the rest. Papa Hen decided to keep all the eggs in the incubator until this Thursday, hoping for some miracles......

This Thursday we will stop rotating the eggs and increase the humidity in the incubator, making it ready for the chicks to hatch. We will be counting down to Sunday, hopefully we can witness the hatching process, where the little newborns will peek their way into Mother Earth....

Stay tuned chook fans!