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Nice! I’m very much done for the season here, as far as hatching goes. How many do you have down again this hatch? Does the NN add some size to the CCL eggs? I love my Sapphire CCLxLH ladies, their blue eggs are large sized (still nowhere near as large as the red production hyline girls, but they are IMO too big) they are the most reliable layers I have right now, as one Barnvelder, both Marans, and two of the Isbars have started molting.
Mrs maran has feathers coming back in on her back (I’ve removed her hensaddle to let them grow in better), and her sister, well let’s just say there aren’t going to be and fluffy butt pics for @BY Bob for a while! Her bum is half bare and growing back in, and a few spots on her back and wings look a bit ratty. I just hope it’s all grown back in before it gets too cold out. Also about half of Chickie Hawks Ladies (the red production gals) are molting as well! Happily, I can also finally see Croppy’s shoulder feathers returning she’s been molting practically since I took her in this spring, and she looks a real mess. I’m giving her egg and tuna treats to up her protien and it seems like it’s finally improving.
I’m sad to say one of my MaransXIsbar chicks didn’t make it. It was a late Hatcher, small, and had a soft belly. I think the incubator temp dropped too low during hatch (89-90 degrees every time I checked in on them) and the person I’m working with was opening the incubators a lot and adding water directly instead of through the provided straw (so they don’t need to be opened). Add in 10 degree Celsius or lower ambient temperatures in an un-insulated shed and a complete refusal to use my rigid r7.5 styrofoam insulation to block the noticeable drafts from the door, and I’m surprised I got as many chicks as I did. Granted mine hatched mainly in fairly large batches at night and were likely less disturbed because of that.
) and I’m still hanging out with some coffee waiting on enough light to let the chickens out!
Already been at work for nearly 2 hours.
Normally I set up lunch the night before, but I hit the rack early with some tummy troubles. Lack of a microwave at the Abbatoir really limits lunch options. 
Had I known I would’ve donated the one from the trailer there instead.
so we try to keep them packed out of sight (which to me actually seems more nefarious). Luckily for Andrew, my preference for large screens on computers resulted in a very large carry on backpack for them. He takes it whenever he doesn’t drive to the other Abbatoir (which, thanks to high inter-island ferry fares, is most days) he usually uses three knives for work, a 12” scimitar steaking knife and two boning knives, as well as his steel for honing. The only decent sized bag that can carry them in his scabbard is my computer bag, so I share. I’m just glad he didn’t really like the 16” scimitar and donated it to the Abbatoir here.
... I’m so happy for you! Must be so exciting!
Not my fault if their kids were idiots. 
Their job to teach their kids how to adult. To say nothing of the machete...
