After 3 long weeks, not expecting anything out of the eggs whe put in the incubator on May 1 (they were beaten and battered through the post office), we had a chick hatch yesterday!!! I was at work, but Shawn was home and got to see him just minutes after he came out of his shell!!
Since our other chicks are 4-6 days older than him/her- it was a suggested to me by a fellow internet chicken lover, that I choose the smallest/quietest of the first batch as a buddy, and put new chick in a separate brooder with the buddy.. I chose one of our white chicks, since I know that one of the white ones was the last of the hatch, and this one is a bit slower than the others, and smaller.. They are doing quite dandy together-- and you can see by the pictures, even 4 days makes a BIG difference in the chicken world!!
Our white chicks are a cross of Barred Rock (rooster) and White Leghorn (hen). The new baby from the hatch is a pure Black Australorp.
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