I wanted to share a photo or two of our hatchlings. We have Japanese Black Tailed White Bantams named Myka, Victoria, Chandler, and Elise. One of the three girls (we are not sure who) laid for us many eggs (about 13?). We put them in our Brinsea incubator (excellent purchase, btw! Worth every penny.), and two never developed (which happens), two developed but did not hatch (which happens with this type of chicken--the gene that causes the desired short legs in this bantam is also a fatal flaw if the chick has two short legged genes. They get almost to hatch and die in the shell), and one chick died several days after hatching.
That leaves us with 8 adorable, impertinent fluff balls :). We moved them from the incubator to a small cardboard brooder (with another Brinsea product--a SAFE, gentle heater), but then they outgrew that so we moved them into the guest bath tub.
They are getting their "big boy feathers" (though some of them are girls, we just call it "big boy" :) ) on their wings and their little tails. The black on their heads is sharpie marks so we can tell them apart :)
We have another clutch of 8 eggs in the incubator and hopefully will have a few more chicks in about a week or so. Then we will be done with the eggs for this year :)
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