New Chicks from Our Hens

We normally incubate our eggs and hatch them out that way. We decided to let a few or our broody hens hatch out some eggs . . . for something different. This Rhode Island Red hen has hatched her first chick. You may notice that the chick is black - not a Rhode Island Red chick. While most of our chickens are Rhode Island Reds we do have a few others . . . including some Barred Cochin bantams (which are black). We had thought the chicks would hatch on Friday or Saturday. This hen is sitting on about 15 eggs and has so far only hatched two chicks. We'll give them a few more days to see if we have any more luck. Although, at this point, it looks like we'll have better luck with the incubator than the hen(s).