I'm Egg-cited!
Martha's recent brood appears to be all boys...
...so eventually they will need to be rehomed.
I was wondering if she'd go broody again, she's been such a good momma.
But now my Dominique Tamar is broody, sitting on faux eggs.
So I ordered her some.
I got 12 eggs, but there's no way Tamar can cover all of them. I can't count on Martha going broody when her chicks are just three weeks old. None of the other hens appear to be going broody.
Enter incubator!
It's a freebie I got through Amaz0n, for the price of a review. It's currently warming up, sitting on my desk in the family/living room. I have tried to somewhat protect it from my cat.
Tentative plans:
1. Eggs arrived yesterday afternoon,will sit large side up until 5pm today, 24 hours after arriving and being settled on the kitchen table.
2. The 6 cleanest eggs will go in the incubator
3. The other 6 will be slipped under Tamar after dark
I've not used an incubator before, so after reading a lot of posts here I have decided to try a dry hatch, adding water to raise the humidity upon lockdown. I don't have distilled water, but I do have a gravity water filter, can use some of its water.
Come on, join the fun!