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Eggs 1, 2 and 3 are all goners... However, I do believe #4 has good veining, albeit strange! Am I the ONLY one that noticed something in #4? If/when that chick hatches, you need to name it Charlotte! That's going to be one BAD chick!!
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You are braver than I am... according to my kids, the chicks all wait until they get taken out of the brooder to poop... I'd definitely be buying a new keyboard soon... LOL
It's been a busy week around here, the snow is melting so there is lots of mud to constantly clean up. And since we had to move the chicken coop to the new house in the middle of winter the gates were all blocked by snow and ice so the coop is in the yard where it is not surrounded by a fence. I'm not brave (or stupid) enough to think the chickens will be safe from roaming dogs so I have to herd them from the coop to the pasture for a day in the sun, then herd them back again in the evening before "lights-out". Not big chores, but they do give me less time to fiddle on BYC. Oh, and I have 2 girls going to prom next weekend so it's been nothing but dresses, hair and shoes for the past week, with 6 days to go till the actual day. I get to spend most of today altering dresses for my girls and their friends, I love that they want me to be so involved but I really want to be playing with chicks instead
I can't wait for my son to get this age, rent a tux, get a haircut, shave, done! How easy can it get?
Ok, now for the updates. the Icelandics due on Friday are coming along nicely. I'm going to pick up an extra bator from a friend so I can separate them from the Easter turkeys for hatching. 3 of the Icelandic eggs have some seriously defective aircells, trauma from shipping I'm sure, but there seems to be good movement in them so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
The Easter turkeys are still a bit of a mystery. The shells are hard to see through but I will see about getting a stronger light and hopefully that will take some of the mystery out of that batch.
I'm taking a break from setting everything and everybody up for me being gone for two and a half days. I leave this afternoon, taking the two dogs, and won't be back until Tuesday afternoon. My best friend who lives 500 miles away is having her first colonoscopy and she's terrified, PLUS she has no one to drive her home afterward.
So I am filling every single yard and coop feeder and waterer, broke out some larger waterers and feeders for the chicks and ducklings in their brooders in my bathroom, checked all six incubators to make sure all is well, and then I'll be hitting the road. Wish I could call home and ask Carl how things are going... (Carl, for those who aren't aware of it, is my dominant rooster.) Oh, and Smudge the inside/outside cat and Licorice the yard cat will have full feeders, too... Maybe not Licorice, as blue jays go after her cat kibble.... But she's a hunter, so she'll be okay.
I don't want to take this trip. I don't want to have to take this trip. But I'm a-gonna do it.
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Eggs 1, 2 and 3 are all goners... However, I do believe #4 has good veining, albeit strange! Am I the ONLY one that noticed something in #4? If/when that chick hatches, you need to name it Charlotte! That's going to be one BAD chick!!
