Mabon and the curious egg..

Hello everyone! The last 2 hatchlings just appeared this morning. The pips last night were the giveaway of their arrival. I slept right through the hatch, well, for these last two at least. I have been waking up at 2am for the other 4 hatches and coupled with work and home life schedules, I am beat!

mabon

mabon

All my hatches went according to plan except for one little guy whom i was EXPECTING a welsummer. I collected an egg i assumed was an egg from the Welsummers. It was in the Welsummer coop, it was a brown egg, and it was very large, even a little bit larger than the normal welsummer eggs i had been getting. For sure it was a welsummer egg!


 But when this little guy/girl started to hatch i saw the color of the down was NOT a welsummer. It was black. link to my welsummer parent flock.

After he pooped out it reminded me of my silver-laced pullet i have whom at the time of lay, would have been only 19 weeks. So, Is it possible on of the Orusts got to her on my watch for those couple hours the boys got out on the 16th of Sept?? And then is it possible for the Silver-Laced Wyodette, named Samantha to go up to the nesting boxes in the welsummer coop to lay an egg the very next day instead of the only coop she has known?? Oh the webs we weave!


As i can not be certain why or whom or when, BUT I am so very curious (and enthralled by this cuteness) to attempt a second hatch of this colouration. :) So, as soon as my incubator is disinfected and dry. I will be looking to plan out a November hatching date :)

Enjoy!