Coming over from the July hatch-a-long, tomorrow will start lock down for our 4 or 5 silkie eggs, I'll candle the one that looks way different than the others tonight and decide if it's ok or not. It had been doing great....it looked like it had two in there, and movement 3 nights ago, but not anymore from either of the odd spots. Yes, this is my first time, so I'm learning the entire way through. We started out with 13, but they went through shipment hell, and yes USPS refunded me $50.
We had a dryer die, so I plan on using the body of the dryer for coop, will insulate it and alter it a bit, and will be turning the drum into another warm farm.
Hubby decided to jump on the bandwagon. (bummer, since this was something me and my daughter-in-law wanted to do together and we had other things we wanted to hatch...and we live in town) He did a homemade incubator that is rocking the temp and humidity far better than my $140 unit could ever compete with. I love his homemade version!! He has 2 Mallard eggs that are due August 16, and 6 Ancona eggs due to hatch on August 26. Started out with 6 Mallard eggs, but 4 were yokers. I will know more on his 6 Ancona eggs later down the road when I can candle them.
So there is my story
Now let's hatch those August babies!!e
Wish you were closer so I could buy an Ancona baby off of you! If you sell hatching eggs next year is be interested.
