Chicks!!!!!!

Isn't this a fantastic picture of a just hatched baby chick? Lex was transporting it from the incubator to the brooder.

We rushed home from work on Wednesday to find that two of our baby chicks had hatched early! The other two were soon pecking their way out of their shells.  Hatching chickens is something every family should do.  My kids were so amazed and awed watching those chickens hatch.  We had candled the eggs throughout the incubation process and they saw as the chick developed and grew bigger in the shell, until Wednesday they were finally ready to enter the world.  I'll admit I get as giddy as the kid do.  There is nothing sweeter than baby chicks.

This year we decided to hatch a different kind of chicken then we did last year.  We ordered 6 Barred Rock chickens.  My kids call them Zebra chickens because the adults have black and white striped feathers.  As chicks they are mostly black with a couple of yellow spots on their heads and wings.  If you thought yellow chicks were cute, you aren't going to believe these! I don't have any pictures right now of them with their feathers all dry and fluffed up, but even my husband who is a chicken hater, could not believe how cute they are! 

This one was the last in the group to hatch. Lex named it Kazoo

This is Lilly holding Princess. (Lilly named it)

Lex snuggling with Ally. (Lex named this one too)

Me holding Tinker Bell. (Lilly named this one too.)