My last hatch! Sumatra/one polish

OH they are adorable!  These are for a friend from BYC which will be delivered today.  The polish is mine tho :)  Here are the Sumatra's I ended up with 5 out of 8... 12 total eggs (4 were clear)...the blue one is a mixed Sumatra but adorable just the same.




Here are some close up's



Three are like this one (below)




Deb, here is the feathering on the one's feet.  It sure is a cutie! 





NOW here are my other ones...this is my youngest brooder crew.  6 BBS orps, 1 Golden Phoenix, and one Polish (WCB)

My first thought...I'm going to throw them all in together while they are still young so I don't have to make THREE transitions!  I already have to make two the way it is.  Middle to big girls...and then the small crew to the big pen when THEY get older.  That's enough!  LOL  So I did it...this morning I stuck the two little ones in with the 6 orps i hatched last week.  There was a little picking of beaks and pulling of hair but nothing really bad.  The little ones fought back so I wasn't real worried until the black opr grabbed the crest of the polish!  Poor baby!  She squawked and I had to break them up and put the meany in solitary  confinement!   LOL  15 min later...added him back in and all is well.  Three hours later they are all sleeping together.  Lets hope they continue to do well.  At first I had the polish and the golden phoenix together but the golden kept picking on the polish so I thought I'm going to just move them in with the bigger ones...that stopped the picking...gave the golden something else to pick on....and that he did.

Here is all eight of them.  The little ones here keep bugging the bigger ones who are trying to sleep!  Picking and pulling on their little white feathers that are growing on their wings. 







Here are some of my Middle girls/guys (1 Serama boy, 7 D'uccle's, 2 orps, 3 australorp) These ones are ready to leave the brooder very soon!  Next week in fact.  HUH we will so how THAT one goes!  Should be very interesting to see what the big girls will do adding new teens to the house.  Stay tuned on that one.  Only three will make the trip to the big house...the rest have new homes to go to. 




THen we have the big girls who are already in the hen house/run...they are eight or nine weeks old now. 

Here is Izzy and Steele sunning themselves.  SO cute! 



PS We tip our chairs upside down so we don't have to sit in poop! Plus they love drinking rain water out of the cracks in the chair lol.



Our dogs patrolling the area