May 5, 2010

And Yet More Babies..

Well, it happened again. I turned my back for one minute and out popped a baby.

Now that I have your attention, here's the baby.



We thought we had our hands full with our guinea babies, not knowing that our little hen was sitting on her own clutch of eggs. We found a little chick a few days ago but it had been pecked by the roosters so we had to put her to sleep. It was awful.

We have now closed off the section that the hen is in, and she has several more eggs snuggled behind the hay, just waiting to crack open. I have to check tommorrow that this area is baby proof as we haven't had chicks before...this is a first for us. I hope they do okay. I hope they stay warm with their mother.

It's obviously very fertile out here in the country......



6 comments:

paige said...

Awww. Cute.
So sad he had to be put to sleep. Good luck with the rest!

Foursons said...

Roosters do that? How horrible!

Cheeseboy said...

I wish I could have baby chicks, but alas I am city folk.

Posh Totty said...

If I didn't have a such a bad chicken phobia that baby would almost be cute ;O)

Powdered Toast Man said...

awww poor chick. Damn that cock!!

Farmers Wifey said...

PTM - BAHAHAHAHAHAHA your first comment on my page is awesome....