Baby chickies, ducks and so on

Our silkie roosters were getting too loud for the city ... so about 3 or 4 weeks ago they became silkie rooster pie (minus the silkie part). Ever since then our silkie hen has been sitting on her eggs quite diligently. We were beginning to feel sorry for her, all that sitting and we just knew the eggs were not fertile. Well, this morning we discovered much to our delight and surprise that we were wrong. She has hatched out 6 little chickies so far and she's still sitting on 3 eggs. It was hard to get a picture of her off the babies and eggs but another hen got into her cage so while she was going to defend the nest Brianna quick took a few snaps.

In other news, a month or so ago we got 5 chicks and 2 ducklings that are growing up rather quickly. These were originally all for meat but I'm not sure if we (well, those of us who eat meat around here) are going to eat the ducks or send them to the big, country garden to eat bugs.

We did not get a picture of our girls (the barred rocks) but they are all doing very well.