Spring and summer is the time of babies.
Apparently, for us, it's also the time to buy 30 more adults.
But the babies are the best part.
Months ago I ordered some Blue Laced Red Wyandottes - a rare, and beautiful, breed of chickens that took my breath away the first time I saw them.
June 1st I received 14 of these chickies.
Unfortunately I didn't get any good pictures of them when they were day-old and fluffy.
You can already see the beautiful patterns and colors in the wings. We have some really dark ones and some really light ones.
A couple of weeks later, here they are, in all their glory. Now they're housed in the barn and their feathers are almost all filled out.
I can't wait for them to grow up.
Then, a few weeks ago, we hatched some of our own home-layed eggs in the incubator. We had about 28 eggs in there, and only got about 10 chicks, but I was happy with that! They came out nice and wet and weak.
Then a few days later puffed up nicely!
So, that's the chickies so far this year. We have another set of eggs in the incubator set to hatch soon.
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