Sammy Gone Broody

Sammy has been broody, trying to hatch chicks, for the past couple of weeks.  She finally did it.  Well, Sunset did it for her.  My friend Emma was over and we went out to make sure Sammy had no eggs under her.

My friend reached under and felt no eggs.  Then we couldn't find Sunset.  Emma lifted up the coop door.  There was little Sunset sitting between the two perches, laying her egg.  

  Emma found two eggs under her.  One was Sunset's egg and the other was Valerie's.  Emma and I brought the eggs inside to candle them to make sure there were no babies in them.

In the first egg we saw nothing.  In the second egg, Valerie's, we saw a dark mass, veins and an eyeball.  We immediately went inside so I was still holding Sammy.  I told Sammy, "You might be a mother!"   We ran back outside, put Sammy back in the nesting box and stuck the egg under her.  


I can't wait to see what a Serama-Americana looks like.

Have any good names for the chick if it hatches?  Please share.