The chicks look as fluffy as clouds this morning. They are still nestled inside the incubator. We will move them to their home in the basement around 3:00 p.m. Today was the original hatch date, so there is still a chance more eggs will hatch in the next couple days. It sounds a little sick, but for the first few days the chicks will eat the yolk of a hardboiled egg. Then a medicated chick food, so we don't have to take them to the vet for shots. In a month, we can move them outside to the chicken coop to live in style.
We are just so happy we were successful in our first hatching! I admit, Randy did a lot of research on the Silkies and deserves the credit for our successful hatching. I just turned the eggs.
I will post more pics of the chicks when we remove them from the incubator!
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