British Druid Order

I am so very excited - so please indulge me for a moment - our chicks have started to hatch!!!
We were woken at 3:30 by the first arrival cheeping, after having successfully made its way out of its shell.
Now we have seven hatched out and another 6 pipping.

Some pics below - but not that great as they are through the incubator - and I might have been too excited to hold the camera that steady.











Watching chicks hatch gets me everytime.

Ahh how lovely they are. I want one. Thanks for the pictures.

...I remember having my own bantam chicks when I was a child. It's all very wonderful....

Today I two policeman and a county councillor, (very down to earth local woman), were marching down the road when next door's, alppaca came running up towards us, followed by the neighbor desperately trying to catch him. He seems to have lost an eye, possibly to Mrgery the goat's, horn. It's all fun in the country..... such excitement...
XElaine

They're lovely photos - thanks claer - and congratulations! (Does pipping mean the stage where the shells are cracking? Not heard that word before.) Elaine... your neighbour had his eye on a goat???!

Yep, when they are just breaking the shell.
All have now successfully hatched out and are nice and cosy in the brooder.