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Monday, March 12, 2012

Babies Galore!

Y'all, we have 17  new, fuzzy little babies at our house. 
Jealous?
 I thought ya might be.


A few weeks ago Jeremy had the fantabulous idea to incubate eggs.  Ya see, last year we brought 8 lovely little chickies home from Coastal.  And one of those little chickies wound up being a rooster.  We thought it might be kind of fun to hatch our very own eggs.  What a Science project, right?

So.  A few days after we got home from San Diego, we fired up the incubator, and nestled a whole bunch of little eggs inside it.

And waited.
And turned them.
And waited.
And added water to up the humidity.
And turned them.
And waited.

And . . .

Lookie what we found on Saturday morning!

{Warning: Baby chicks aren't exactly the cutest when they're first born.  "Birth pictures" to follow}

{Also, Mimi . . . no more chickie horror stories, k?  That was frightening.}

 
Ten1

Chicks1

Finally breaking free
Chicks2

And by this morning . . .
Sixteen baby chickies!!!
Chicks3

Good gracious they're cute!
Chicks4

They kept us pretty busy this weekend.  How was your weekend?  Do tell.
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