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My Welsummer has been sitting for 21 days and an hour ago I checked for any signs of broken bits of egg (first clues of hatching?) and to my surprise, there was a fluffy little yellow chick sat next to her!! Yaaay! Well after I had finished somersaulting, flip-flopping and running around the garden, I calmed down and I swear it felt like my own daughter had given birth. LOL. Anyways she has got 8 eggs - 6 warren/blackrocks off a friend and 2 of her own which will probably have Brahma daddy in them. I already have 2 of hers running around the garden at present (2 weeks on Weds) that I hatched in the inci and they have got the Brahma x. You see I also have a Welcock bantam that tries his luck with all the girls, so I am not sure who 'daddy' could be but with the 2 I have already the feathering on the legs and feet sort of give it away
Mine are only 12-13 weeks old so there's a long way to go before they even think about egg laying let alone being broody!
There are 4 Light Sussex, 1 warren and 1 Welsumer x Brahma (chipmunk!). Yes, the cross does have its daddys' hairy legs and feet
and if the dark colouring is anything to go by it is a hen also. They spend most of the day outside with mom teaching them everything they need to know. She wil sit and warm them up from time to time. They get the occasional trampling from the bigger ones in the food scrummage but they are tough and apart from a little scream, just get on with it. Mum rambles all over the show with them, so my initial idea of containing them in a little area for safety wasn't needed.
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