Speedy's a mum

I'm a grandmother. Speedy had a baby. I'm so excited and it appears to be as photogenic as its mother. Have I mentioned that I'm excited?

Chicks

I tried to take some close-ups of the baby chicks this morning. They are so cute and very small. It's quite cold today and the babies were all huddled under their mother.

Still no babies from Katcsa or Speedy. I swear one of these days they are going to get tired of sitting. I mean don't they need to stretch their legs?

Egg watch day 3

While I don't want to say I'm tiring of the egg watch but I just want them to have babies. The other hen has about 8 baby chicks and Katcsa and Speedy have 0.
The black hen has lots of brown babies, some black ones and I'm sure some small Speedy babies. I'll take some photos tomorrow. I'm beginning to think that Katcsa's wont hatch. She doesn't sit on the eggs, she just puts them to the side of her. I think she must find the eggs uncomfortable.

baby watch

I'm not sure where that Not Chicken went to on Friday. When I went out to shut the chicken pen door it had fled from where it was sitting.
Yesterday we pumped out the water from the pond and refilled it with much nicer cleaner water. The ducks had stopped swimming in there as it was filled with so much poo.
I don't think it will take them long before they are swimming in it again.
So the countdown to the babies has begun. The chicken that is sitting next to Speedy on lots of Speedy eggs has hatched a few. I heard and saw one earlier this morning. So Katcsa should be next and then Speedy.

Not chicken

I went out to feed the chickens and I found this bird running around the duck pen. I really thought it was a chicken but a few weeks old. We then caught it and it ran off into the chicken pen. I saw another one of them outside the pen but when I tried to find it, it was gone.

Its definitely not a chicken though as it wasn't chirping. Maybe it fell out of a nest.

Birthday girl

I was thinking this morning that Speedy must be about one year old now. I remember the morning that I went out and found the two and a half chickens and found Speedy's mum dead. We had a few friends visiting from Brisbane and I was out showing off the ducks when we found this chick that couldn't walk and was quite damaged that was still cherping. Poor Chris, I made a guest of the rancho end this poor little chick's life. Sure I'm a farmer but I couldn't do that. This was in November. Speedy and the other chick were off hiding but I could hear them.
Then a few days later I rescued Speedy and the rest is history.
I'm so excited about her having babies. I got the other chicken off Speedy's eggs again last night. I really should do it earlier than dusk as its a bit hard for the chicken in the dark.

Speedy

Speedy nearly pecked me yesterday and it wasn't even for the above photo. Any other chicken would peck the camera, but not my little Speedy. What did annoy her was I was feeling under her wing, I was just checking for ticks and lice. But she didn't peck me she just made the motion to. I retreated and realised I may have bothered her a little.

However, I went back in the evening and noticed that Speedy was no longer in her box and was standing on a branch. Mongy foot and pushed her off her eggs and was sleeping there. Well I was having none of that and moved Mongy foot along. Then I picked Speedy back up and returned her to her nest. She was happy to be back on her eggs again. I'll be damned if another chicken is going to lay claim to Speedy's eggs... all two of them.