Hatchlings Happening!

[phesina]

Wow! Your family has grown, for sure!

Best wishes to all!!!

[Karen]

Thanks, dark now and everyone is sleeping, but will try for pictures tomorrow!

[Karen]

Okay, some pictures!

We do not give hatchlings names until they are in their full feather - too many hazards out there for them, and of course we don't really know them yet!

But here is what I managed to get:

Mama Cardamom - Muscovy Duck and her two ducklings:

[Karen]

A Rapa Nui chick and a Freedom ranger chick I think:

[Karen]

Four little fluffs:

[Karen]

Lady Katherine the Copperscotch and five of her eight - two are her own, the others she adopted when I bought them to take down to Boston for Easter Sunday:

[Karen]

Mama Lola, a Rapa Nui and her nine - yes 9 babies, three yellow, three black and three brown. She hid her nest away from everyone and everything, and we only found her when one of the chicks escaped and was halfway across the yard one day. Kermit figured out the direction it came from, and we waited until dark and got the whole clutch and mama to safety for a few days for them to get a bit bigger.