Ok, update on the Jap boy.
He is still alive this morning, but both his eyes are swollen shut, and he can't see at all.
I know it sounds heartless of me, but I think I'm just going to go and cull him today. I would hate to see him suffer anymore. Now he can't even find the food and water on his own.
I candled again last night, LOL - last time I'm going to candle at all - I'll just leave it for now and see what hatches. I did find a quitter (had a blod ring) and I believe I have a few other quitters, but they don't stink, so they stay - at least they'll help even out the temps in there.
Tonight when I go to feed donkeys I'll grab a cage to bring in - I don't think I'll need the playpen just yet, I doubt I'll have
that many to begin with. Besides that sewing room isn't that big to be putting it in there with the table holding the bator in there, too.
I'm getting nervous about the incubator, now that it is getting closer to hatch. I am wondering if any of them will hatch, if the eggs I candled look right (never done this before) or if I am just gonna lose them all. With everything else happening with the chickens, I want to at least have some babies to play with and not have all of them die on me. Thursday is my last day to turn them.
I hope I have at least one of my eggs hatch (from my place, I mean) and I hope I have a black australorp mix with George - I am curious to see how it'll look, and I love my BA hens, they are so funny and friendly. The one chick I had out of George and an orange hen came out white with some black flecks - nothing like I expected it to look like. But then, I have no idea what went into the breeding of that orange hen.
It's supposed to rain a lot this week, so maybe I'll do some baking and make some candy for Thanksgiving, and decorate the house. That might cheer me up a bit, and keep me from obsessing over the incubator.
I already put out the crystal nativity scene, and a couple other decorations
hubby said "oh, not this early?!?" I said yeah, this early
I want to get my porch lights up, too. My tree is over in the boy's place, but that'll have to wait til after Thanksgiving. I have plenty of other stuff to decorate with before I get that put up.
Oh, and Sam has to clean their place today, I gave him an ultimatum. I had to go over there yesterday to get Jon and it is a sty. Sam got a new xbox360 (his friend in Michigan bought it for him and had it sent here) so that is all he's done for a week.
I have company coming for Thanksgiving (possibly, my mom and step dad) so their place has to be cleaned top to bottom. The guest room is in their house, not mine.
I do have to say, though, I love having my teenagers have their own place to trash and leave my house cleaner. It certainly saves a lot of arguments.
When we moved in and the neighbor kid (he's 13) found out that Jon and Sam would have their own house he about flipped
His dad actually has a house for him, now, they are fixing it up for when he is out of high school so he can live on the property and pay rent to Mom and Dad. His is an old small house that was on his aunt's property that she wanted removed, they moved it to their place and have been working on it all summer. That kid is very glad we gave his parents the idea
. His is done enough that he has his games and such there, he can go and be alone and play games and snack and not be bothered by "adults" . He's a sweet kid.
I have a lot to get done today otuside before the rain hits. We did manage to cover the baler yesterday, but we needed more rope, so we got that and a couple more tarps for other equipment. But I don't mind, since I know I'll have about four days of rain to be inside and do some stuff in here.
Four days of rain - I guess winter is here, eh?
meri
