Good I am so glad things worked out after all the trouble. I looked in on Gerty and there are no chicks just two broken eggs at the front just under her belly???? I hope its pips and not her having a go at them???? They should be hatching - like anytime from now through Saterday???? I am hoping we will get at least one live chick?
I keep trying to get DH to turn his eggs but he forgets. I figured I would just let him go with this because nothing I tell him seems to actually go inside his head. Funny but if he reads it from a book or finds it on the internet its ok but if I tell him he ignors it???? Why are men like that????? So anyhow no matter how many times I told him he has to turn the eggs at least twice a day he forgets and then the temp is soooooo darn low the eggs are not even warm to touch at times but hay what do I know? I don;t think they will hatch but hes having fun "learning!" his own way. So I don;t think we will get any Light sussex x . But at least our hen seems to know what to do with the Leghorn eggs!
I am having a laugh at the moment watching DH try to hatch the sussex in the garage - he is very protective of "his" eggs but I think they are probably dead cause he can;t understand how important Temp and humidity are? After we hatched incubator eggs last year and had bother then you would think he would get it by now. I am waiting for them to explode!!!!
no harm done of course but he will learn eventually after he gets covered with yuky rotten eggs a few times!!!
You know whats going to happen they will probably hatch to spite me now I said that!
Oesdog
OMG - Just went to check Gerty and I can hear babies peeping!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhh - there still inside the shells but deffinately chicks they are alive!!!!! We will have to wait another 11 days to see if DHs eggs hatch as they are far from due! Oh chickies there coming!!!!!!
I keep trying to get DH to turn his eggs but he forgets. I figured I would just let him go with this because nothing I tell him seems to actually go inside his head. Funny but if he reads it from a book or finds it on the internet its ok but if I tell him he ignors it???? Why are men like that????? So anyhow no matter how many times I told him he has to turn the eggs at least twice a day he forgets and then the temp is soooooo darn low the eggs are not even warm to touch at times but hay what do I know? I don;t think they will hatch but hes having fun "learning!" his own way. So I don;t think we will get any Light sussex x . But at least our hen seems to know what to do with the Leghorn eggs!
Oesdog
OMG - Just went to check Gerty and I can hear babies peeping!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhh - there still inside the shells but deffinately chicks they are alive!!!!! We will have to wait another 11 days to see if DHs eggs hatch as they are far from due! Oh chickies there coming!!!!!!
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