Good lord, you guys are busy! I wasn't keeping up, so I just went through and read.. if we still need pictures, I'll do some digging and find something. And you can bet our first chick will come out of there, other pips or not.. we'll do something to help keep the humidity. It'll be in the recliner with me and a heating pad.
I'm really glad to be doing this, it gave me not only an excuse to get more practice with the incubator and hopefully improve my hatches, but also REQUESTS from family members on what they want to hatch, so that I'm not the sole guilty party! Up until this summer, I was the only one in the house without a hobby of some type. Now I have my husband and daughter hooked. I feel much better now.
And I know I have homes for extras, so that doesn't hurt, either!
Now my problem is that I didn't keep track of what / how many I was ordering. Shiny stuff, you know.
When I finally sat down and wrote out a list of the orders, I realized I have way, way more eggs than I have incubator space.. I ordered another one, hope it gets here before then. And a family member will set some for me at his place. And there are still two ongoing auctions on
eBay where I went OOoo those are pretty! And tossed in a bid. They end in a few days. I'm not bidding anymore, but if I somehow win, that'll be about two dozen more... He needs to just go ahead and take my Paypal privileges away.
And there are so many birds I've seen people post that I would LOVE to have, too! (Like those Icelandics and Illia's Tolbunt boys!) How do you people stay patient?
So, here's the list: (aside from those two auctions that I'm kind of hoping I lose now!)
Wheaton Marans
Araucana & Ameraucanas (I'm hoping they are true and not mixes.. but I'll take mixes
)
Olive Eggers
Cochins (LF)
Frizzled EEs & Cochins (my daughter put frizzled EEs on her Christmas list!)
Golden Lakenvelders (with Silver ready to be set this weekend for Christmas Day)
Seramas (for my other half)
Most of them I only want a few birds from.. the wheatons I really, really wanted, and now I think I might even get overloaded. Took me a bit to figure it out, but I found them.
I got three POL pullets and a cockerel from breeders, two people sent/are sending me chicks, and two sets of eggs.. one set is in lockdown now and they're due to join us Sunday!
My husband is dying to see those seramas. I keep catching him looking at pictures online. If we get a good hatch rate, very good chance we'll have a pair or trio of the seramas in a little bunny hutch in the living room.
The one corner looks awful empty, and I can't imagine putting them outside..
