Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[sumi]

Unless you are trying to tell me something

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Unless you are trying to tell me something

OMG oven open and on high!! I cant get it above 66 degrees and my bones hurt so bad!!! HOT TUB when these kids leave!!!

OMG warmth warmth!!!

 

[sumi]

Tell me about it. It started raining today, so the snow melted some, but the wind! Kiddo was full of beans so we took him for a long walk. Took me exactly 5 seconds to realise it was a bad idea. LOL It was freezing out there! You must get some thermal underwear. Keep you warm. How's your wrist today?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I have a nuked rice pack wrapped around it!!

 

[sumi]

 

[3Dchicken]

Hi Sally!

Said I'd pop in and join & Ta-Dah! here I am!!

Okay festivities aside.... I'm on Day 7 with 16 Welsummer eggs that I'm hatching my first time ever on a Brinsea. It's been a stressful start as I thought my Brinsea was a drop-it-in & forget-about-it kinda deal.... but on Day3 I had weird temp fluctuations from the 80s up to past 100..... talk about a rude awakening at 5:30a when the thermometer registered 83F and who knows how many hours it had been that low..... was so ready to chuck the eggs and return the $#^%$^% thing, but hubbs babysat the incubator and slowly made adjustments. I still dunno what went wrong.....

I tried candling last night (Day6) and its too darn dark (dark brown speckled eggs) to figure out what I'm looking at. But I am certain I see a blood spot or two.... Should I wait til Day 10 to recandle? I've weighed all the eggs last night, and of course have lost anywhere from 2-4 gm per egg. I don't think I'd feel bad about cracking open an egg or two and visually confirming that the chicks have had early deaths. It's still a learning process for me - I'd just feel bad if I did crack one open and it was still developing..... sheezh! Imagine the guilt!

Heyyo!!!

Good luck with the eggs!

 

[3Dchicken]

well its too cold to work on it now, so its good enough for a few weeks for me!!! I didnt do much because I cant, but I can hold fence and use the air stapler and cut some 2x3's so it went really fast...... only took a few hours, it took longer to cclean out the shed!!!

It's -30 degrees celsius here with the wind chill!

I breed field English Springer Spaniels ~ My son hunts for geese and ducks so they were at the marsh training
HOWEVER on this trip, My son asked his gal to marry him by adding the ring to Rugers collar and asking her to let him off the leash....
So I now have an engaged son!

Aww! How cute!!

 

[3Dchicken]

Umm, is it normal that Hope's beak looks like it has a gap in it?

 

[sumi]

What do you mean? Pic?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Umm, is it normal that Hope's beak looks like it has a gap in it?

?? pic