We Have Feathers!

Just a quick photo of Dad in the nest, and one of the babies. The other baby is behind him, but you can see its beak sticking up.  They're very differently-colored.  One baby is dark, and one is light.  Too cute!  Hopefully I can catch the parents out of the nest and get a photo of both youngsters very soon. I can't tell yet if either of them will be crested.  :-)

Dad was not at all happy with me shoving the camera in his face!  LOL!  As always, pardon the poo.

Ah, here we go.  Dad just left the nest to go eat.  :-)  So far it looks like both of them are normals, not cresteds.  Dad is a chocolate pied crested, and the two females are chocolate pied (no crests).

Edited to add:  WOO HOO!!!!!  There were 8 eggs in one of the nest boxes that didn't appear to be viable. It turns out that they were VERY close to hatching when I candled them, which is why they looked odd to me.  I just used a mirror to peek in the nest, and saw a whole mess of hatchlings!  YIPPEE!!!  I couldn't get a head count, but I know there are at least 3 wigglies that I saw, and I'm sure there are more under the parents (they were in the nest as well).  These hatchlings belong to the trio that I'd mentioned previously ... where one of the hens kept laying eggs in the floor despite having two nests to choose from.  Looks like they finally figured it out!  :-D  It's a M/F/F trio, so I don't know if one hen laid all 8 eggs, or if they both laid eggs at the same time.  Either way, welcome to the world, little pink wigglies!  :-D