Getting ready for chicks

Ken the hen is currently on day 15 of her incubation of two eggs - so I'm starting to get excited! If the eggs aren't viable she usually kicks them away at about this time, and so far she hasn't. If I'm really lucky, in about 6 or 7 days I might get two seriously cute little yellow fluffy hatchlings.

This is how Betsey looked a few weeks after she was born. So unbelievably cute!

When she first came out of the egg she looked exactly like a little Easter Chick on a card; the colour of egg yolk and pure fluff with big black eyes.

Hopefully the two eggs under Ken will both hatch out equally cute Buff Orpington/Light Sussex cross chicks.

In preparation I've been pressure-washing this a-frame cage again. It's the perfect size for the final few days of her brooding and when the eggs start to hatch there won't be any massive clod-hopping cockerel feet in the way and potentially killing the chicks.

This is Ken with a chick she hatched out about 18 months ago, Adorable!

Fingers crossed all goes well!