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Hi, my name is Sarah and I am new to this whole Chicken thing. I live about 40 miles north of Seattle.
My husband and I were finally able to buy a home that had some land and I knew I needed to find a way to get some chickens - mostly because I find them absurdly cute. After my husband complained about all the bugs in our heavily wooded lot for the 20th time in the first week I told him I had a solution
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I decided to go with incubating. I know this seems kinda crazy for a complete beginner, but I'm only a little crazy, promise. My husband's 14 year old son is coming out for his yearly one month visit and I thought it would be both educational AND hopefully cause him to grow more of a bond with his father to experience the chickens hatch.
Since he is due out the third week of July, I ordered an incubator and eggs about two weeks ago. I got the incubator the beginning of last week and the eggs shipped on the 27th. The eggs arrived today (2 day shipping my foot! Thanks USPS). I inspected each egg carefully for damage and then placed them in the incubator as close to fat side up as possible....How do you (on a flat surface) really get it to go fat side up? The eggs are now sitting in their new 21 day home happily toasty and my husband just turned them before he headed to bed (I work nights).
The eggs are 4 easter eggers, 6 assorted bantams, and 1 surprise. I'm really anxious for the 21-22 days to pass!!
Here are a couple photos of my new family!
My husband and I were finally able to buy a home that had some land and I knew I needed to find a way to get some chickens - mostly because I find them absurdly cute. After my husband complained about all the bugs in our heavily wooded lot for the 20th time in the first week I told him I had a solution
I decided to go with incubating. I know this seems kinda crazy for a complete beginner, but I'm only a little crazy, promise. My husband's 14 year old son is coming out for his yearly one month visit and I thought it would be both educational AND hopefully cause him to grow more of a bond with his father to experience the chickens hatch.
Since he is due out the third week of July, I ordered an incubator and eggs about two weeks ago. I got the incubator the beginning of last week and the eggs shipped on the 27th. The eggs arrived today (2 day shipping my foot! Thanks USPS). I inspected each egg carefully for damage and then placed them in the incubator as close to fat side up as possible....How do you (on a flat surface) really get it to go fat side up? The eggs are now sitting in their new 21 day home happily toasty and my husband just turned them before he headed to bed (I work nights).
The eggs are 4 easter eggers, 6 assorted bantams, and 1 surprise. I'm really anxious for the 21-22 days to pass!!
Here are a couple photos of my new family!
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and Welcome To BYC! Good luck with your hatch, that looks like a nice assortment.
