also the firecrackers comes to mind. I jqve too many and have to write wjich pen hatched when or i dont even know how old they are 
Actually, the names are a memory aid in addition to being fun. Harvest moon is in September so I'll always know they hatched in September. Plus, it's easier to think about weeks that way when their age matters, like when raising meat birds. Depending on the breed, it could take two or three moon cycles to raise a meat bird, which may also be the distance between the solstice and equinox. So if I'm calling a group of birds the "summer solstice Cornish X" then I know they should be butchered by the harvest moon. Or I'll see that it's the full moon, and think, "Oh yeah, it's been two full moons since those chicks hatched, time to eat them." Or, a laying hen that hatches on the spring equinox (Mar 20) is likely to start laying by the fall equinox (Sept 23), that type of thing.Ive been meaning to tell you also i really like the idea of naming every hatch after the moon stages and Kiki does some naming. The box of chocolates her most recent
I don't know the moon stuff like you do but I've been naming my batches (kinda) after holidays.Upon candling the duck eggs, it appears they are all fertile. I'm thrilled and terrified, lol. I managed to drop one (thereby cracking three) and had to patch those with wax.
Two of the EE eggs that looked clear last night now have a blood island??? Seems a bit late, but here's hoping they're not just insta-quitters. One double yolker has a blood ring, the other has one developing embryo, and I think the other one quit and is being absorbed??? Not sure, never had a double yolker before.
My kids are here today and I have a gentleman caller tonight and I just got 75 quail eggs in the mail, so the candler is on the back burner today. Tomorrow night is a super new moon, which means I better get this meddlebator put together!
Actually, the names are a memory aid in addition to being fun. Harvest moon is in September so I'll always know they hatched in September. Plus, it's easier to think about weeks that way when their age matters, like when raising meat birds. Depending on the breed, it could take two or three moon cycles to raise a meat bird, which may also be the distance between the solstice and equinox. So if I'm calling a group of birds the "summer solstice Cornish X" then I know they should be butchered by the harvest moon. Or I'll see that it's the full moon, and think, "Oh yeah, it's been two full moons since those chicks hatched, time to eat them." Or, a laying hen that hatches on the spring equinox (Mar 20) is likely to start laying by the fall equinox (Sept 23), that type of thing.
I seriously end up sounding like a wizard, lol, but eggs take 3 weeks to incubate and chick age is usually measured in weeks, and weeks aren't named in a way where you know what time of year they happened. You have to remember two calendar dates and then do math in your head across months that don't all have the same number of days. What a nuisance! Whereas I know we're coming up on the fall equinox, so the chicks that hatched around spring equinox are almost 6 months old, and the ones that hatched around the solstice (June 20) are almost 3 months old, etc.
IT'S EASIER I SWEAR
A paid date?
Neither of us is a sex worker, if that's what you mean
Lady visitor? Female familiar?
