Thursday, December 6, 2012


Sunshine is a MOM!!!  The first egg was pipping at 6 pm and hatched out by 9:30 pm.  We moved Sunshine, her chick and egg into the house to the brooder box tonight when we got home from church.  The little chick is so tiny it looks like a baby bird!  Sunshine is a buff orpington bantam, and she's a small one, the eggs weren't very big either.  The other egg is pipping and peeping now at 11:30 pm and we're hoping to see a second chick by morning. 

The little chick is hard to see beside her, but it looks like it'll have the silkie dark skin (our rooster is a silkie) and has tannish fuzz with a speckle on it's head.  It's very adventurous already and it's so cute to hear Sunshine talking to it! 

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