Yeah, yeah, I know. Chickens don’t have dick to do with knitting, but whatEVER. This is NEWS, baby!

CritterBoy and I have three full-grown chickens (Noodle, Sesame, and the silkie).
Noodle is the hen that crows, Sesame is just pretty and obnoxious, but
a good layer, and the silkie, at least right now, is doin’ nothin’ but
sittin’ on the next being broody as all hell.

Now, go back a
few months to last summer, when CB came home with the silkie and the
two others that we affectionately called “The Nuggets”, both of whom
were bobble-headed chickens – one a Buff Laced Polish, the other a Silver Polish. (Hey, wait, does this look familiar?). Sadly, both of the bobbles turned out to be roosters,
so they had to go. In this case they both went to my friend G at work.
The silver one died mysteriously about a week after going to his new
home, but the buff has grown and flourished and is gettin’ all kinds of
chicken-on-chicken action. So G has fertile eggs. Buff Laced
Polish/Auracana cross fertile eggs. But no broody hen. Sooo… you can
see where this is going, can’t you?

Last week G brought me three eggs. I put them under the silkie, just to see what would happen. She, of course, has been savagely sitting on them, dutifully turning them, and being all kinds of excited about being allowed to sit on them. I candled the three eggs last night, and one of them I’m pretty sure isn’t doing anything. One I can’t quite tell, but I think it might be incubating, and the third one? Oh yeah, TOTALLY growing a chicken in there. Hoo-ee! Two weeks from tomorrow we should have another chicklet! If I could figure out how to take pictures of the developing chicklet I would totally do it, so stay tuned and I’ll see if I can’t figure that one out.

This concludes your chicken update for today. No knitting or spinning has really happened that’s worth talking about. I will, however, take some pix of the chicklets tonight when I get home – two days and they’re visibly bigger! Hooray for frighteningly rapid growth!

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