Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

How's everyone holding up with all this rain though? My runs are decently flooded... I swear we're mulching the darn things this year.

My turkey pen is a swamp at the moment and the chicken coop is mucky but we're all good up here. We did have some crazy flooding at work though. Glendale Lake is 4' above normal level...

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I've recently cut back my flock dramatically. I went from around 30 chickens to 15 and 11 turkeys to 7. I'm also cutting up all my fabric for hen saddles but once it's gone, I'm done. It's getting too hard to keep up with everything along with work and the family. That, and uncle Sam wants a big chunk of my profits :/ I kept mostly my older hens and toms to live out their days (@fisherlady Ana is still here lol). I rescued a little mutt roo at the swap who is happily watching over my flock now. We named him Reggie

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Oh and by the way, there's a swap tomorrow morning (Saturday, April 5th) from 9-1 at Tyrone Milling if anyone is nearby :) I will be there with a bunch of olive egger/ easter egger chicks, black copper Marans chicks and hen saddles.
 
Lockdown has begun!!! I've got 18 eggs waiting to hatch and oh my gods am I going to punt this incubator if things don't start working right. I get the temp up and the humidity drops, I get the humidity up and the temp drops! :barnie

-sighs- It's been old faithful for many years but I think it might be time to get a newer one. (I say newer because there's no way I can afford a brand new Brinsea let alone the one I want). I know I started looking for used cabinet incubators on fb marketplace but I had to pause that search with life getting so hectic.

And yes I've got two sponges I cut in half and soaked and put in there, I have a tray of water with a pipette I'm putting into the water hole at the top of the lid and the vent is closed fully. I just pray this hatch goes okay because if I lose all my chicks due to something stupid I'm gonna lose my last marble. It's never been this difficult... and I'm trying to wrap my head around why and I just can't.
 

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