all the best intentions...

[skyisfalling]

well to make a long story short...i have 32 guinea eggs in bator still have 9 days to go...i did not know my husband had put 6 chicken eggs in bator,20 days ago, and with the luck i have had with shipped eggs i have just really not cared and let him do the work...when i would check water there would be none, very dry wells, never took those 6 eggs out of turner on day 18 because i did not even know they were i there...i guess you could say he just put hem in there and left them probalby there was water in wells for 5 days total... and this morning i had 2 little chicks up crawling allover guinea eggs...when i would try to hatch my shipped eggs and duck egg i check humidity temp, turned, kept everything as i have read and had nothing..and he does nothing and has chicks..UGH

 

[2txmedics]

it figures...we try, we sit, we watch, we hope, we adjust knobs...temps ...humidity and we struggle...they come along and BAM!!!!

When I first got chickens...27wks ago...I never saw who crowed first...honey did....when the first egg came...honey found them....I never did....when a egg was layed, honey saw it layed I didnt...it took me I kid you not 4wks to see my first egg layed, even with me sitting out there and waiting as I knew they were going to lay!!!! I would wait and wait....finally I'd say guess not...I'd walk away and come back, and boom theres an egg....

My daug. in law came over, said I want to see a hen lay an egg, I said you cant ...you never know when its coming....we are standing there talking...and she says, "Oh my god!!! she is laying an egg and I see it coming out!!!! I turn around and sure enough...vent up...egg pushing out, one push, two push, three pushes...flop...egg....