Happy Pumpkin!

We have been eagerly waiting for our silkie chicks to hatch.  For a while I thought none of them would hatch we seemed to be waiting so many days!  We have two broody hens sitting on eggs and since last week we have been waiting eagerly for our chicks to hatch.  Well, what a surprise on Halloween morning to find our first little chick.  Sol came rushing in yelling with joy on discovering the chick! We have called our first chick Pumpkin.  He is so small and beautiful!  How excited the boys were.

Sol made a little nesting box.  Good carpentry skills!  And drew sweet little chicks all around.  They fit into the box perfectly!

 We've moved the mother and chicks into the conservatory to keep warm although they are so warm under their mothers wing.  It is amazing to watch her tuck her chicks safely under her wings. 
We have four altogether now and the fifth has just started cracking through the egg this morning.  
This is the first one we will see in the process of hatching and the boys keep checking besides themselves with excitement.  We can hear the chick chirping away from within the egg!
That will be Alabaster's chicks all hatched and then Snowdrop's four to follow!  Goodness, we'll be overrun with chickens!  The chicks so far are all dark.  I wonder if any will be white like the mothers or lavender grey like the cockerel, Dab-Dab.   

Back to Halloween. 

 Our Halloween pumpkins on Halloween.  Jedi carrying his pumpkin around. 

 Leo loving all the squishy pumpkiny slushiness.  Look, he has lost his two front teeth!!

Later in the day, we bobbed for apples. 

I made delicious chocolate chip pumpkin muffins.

In the evening, the boys dressed up and we had a treasure treat hunt in the garden.   Still to make pumpkin pie.  Our little chick pumpkin made this a very special Halloween this year!

Pumpkin