I set another round of eggs...just couldn't resist! Everything was going fine... until we lost power about a week before the hatch! A bad storm hit here and tore off some siding and shingles...some crazy wind. I watched the incubator as it dropped down to 90 degrees quickly and then started digging around for a way to save them since it was getting colder in the house. (I wasn't sure how long button eggs could last in the cold.) I grabbed a cardboard box, 13 tea lights, 2 thermometers and a towel. I got the temperature to stay in between 99-100 degrees in the box by moving the towel and candles around. I also shifted the eggs around from time to time while watching the thermometers. Luckily, it only took a few hours for the power to come on...I couldn't believe it since we live far out in the country here. A lot of people here went a few days without it since so many were hit. Lucky little eggs...I hoped.
Now I just had to wait.
On the 15th day I could hear slight noises in a few. -- Sure enough on the 16th day around 7 AM they hatched! At first just one....and then 20!
I had hatched out my fourth batch of buttons! Out of 23 possible 20 made it out healthy as can be.
Here is the hillbilly egg box ( I crashed into the box before putting the eggs in and spilled some wax in there
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And the twenty new buttons!!
Now it is time to order that car adapter for my Hova-bator...
Now I just had to wait.
On the 15th day I could hear slight noises in a few. -- Sure enough on the 16th day around 7 AM they hatched! At first just one....and then 20!
I had hatched out my fourth batch of buttons! Out of 23 possible 20 made it out healthy as can be.
Here is the hillbilly egg box ( I crashed into the box before putting the eggs in and spilled some wax in there
And the twenty new buttons!!
Now it is time to order that car adapter for my Hova-bator...
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