I am setting 16 duck eggs in tonight, (pekin and runners) then waiting a week to add my chicken eggs to the hatch. I wish I owned two bators, but am thankful I have at least one. Also I have some English Angora Rabbits kits due a little over a week. Easter is all about bunny and eggs here!
Just got power back on after 5 1/2 hours and babies hatching in the bator! Went out at 1:30 a.m. and DH already had the generator and extension cords ready to provide power to both bators, the brooder and the Firetower where there are four youngsters. He hasn't slept all night and was just getting ready to run to a gas station to buy more gas for the generator when the power came back.
One porcelain is almost fluffed out, a mille fleur d'anver has just hatched, four others are pipped out of the nine. The only pip I can see in the standard size babies is one EE (or Ameraucana, don't know which it is). Today is Day 20.
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I know you are tired and still pretty excited!
The storms went through here yesterday and they were awful. Came through right as I was taking my DGD to school. We turned around once to come back home it was so bad. Then all the way back home after taking her I worried about the electricity.