This is our first hatch. We are 4 weeks into chickens. So... we know little. My precious husband told me he would just rely on "common sense" in regards to our animals. We inherited 2 donkeys and 7 goats with our new farm. I have been buying books, researching, reading. We now have chickens.... silkies to be precise. My husband just wants to eat them. I want to love them.
We are in the midst of our first hatch. We set 16 eggs and have 12 left on lockdown. During the candling just before lockdown, my husband showed up. He travels a lot and it's not really his fault he hasn't been here. But.... he could do a little research! We had been marking the eggs with a + for ones we thought were good or a ? if we weren't sure. There was one that had nothing. I just didn't know. At the last candling, my DH said, Throw it out. No good. I sniffed it. And I remembered that I had read that if it didn't smell, give it a chance. The rest looked like something was happening and so did this one. But it did look pourous. It just didn't smell. I said, "Let's just keep it and see what happens." And I put it in lockdown.
Well, guess what? It is the second egg to pip! Only the Lord knows if it will end up being a chick, but I stood my ground, defied DH's "common sense", and kept the egg. It may just be my favorite chick if it lives.
Thank you to all my BYC friends! If not for you, I would have believed him and thrown it away. We didn't and I think a chick is being born.... obviously the most beautiful, loving, prolific chick ever!
We are in the midst of our first hatch. We set 16 eggs and have 12 left on lockdown. During the candling just before lockdown, my husband showed up. He travels a lot and it's not really his fault he hasn't been here. But.... he could do a little research! We had been marking the eggs with a + for ones we thought were good or a ? if we weren't sure. There was one that had nothing. I just didn't know. At the last candling, my DH said, Throw it out. No good. I sniffed it. And I remembered that I had read that if it didn't smell, give it a chance. The rest looked like something was happening and so did this one. But it did look pourous. It just didn't smell. I said, "Let's just keep it and see what happens." And I put it in lockdown.
Well, guess what? It is the second egg to pip! Only the Lord knows if it will end up being a chick, but I stood my ground, defied DH's "common sense", and kept the egg. It may just be my favorite chick if it lives.
Thank you to all my BYC friends! If not for you, I would have believed him and thrown it away. We didn't and I think a chick is being born.... obviously the most beautiful, loving, prolific chick ever!
