Whew! That's a lot of stories!!
My first time incubating, I've got me a borrowed Little Giant. No way of checking humidity, so we're all just guessing
This is day 8, candled last night (had some trouble finding a light bright enough, we like it dark here!) My Easter Eggers, although a very nice deep blue/green, are just buggers when it comes to candling! I've got 11 in there. I originally meant to only put ten, to get an even percentage to rate my future
hatches, but one of the blues was very cold when I found it. (I had been in and around the coops almost all day, and boy was it cold!)
So I pulled a room temperature (a chilly 60-3) egg that was waiting to be washed and eaten and stuck it in there for good measure. Unfotunately, when I had my lunch and left the coops for 1 (1!) hour, two eggs were laid and I've no idea whose they were. So, there are only three positive mother IDs: one of the best buff Plymouth Rocks, Matri, my very yellow Golden-Laced Wyandotte, aptly named Yellow, and the favorite of the barnyard, THE most friendly, inquistive bird ever, an EE named Tawnbomb. So that's five, the other six are just random collections.
We have two roos and two coops. (For some reason, my knuckleheaded GLW roo 'Red' decided a month ago that he didn't like my dad's white Plymouth Rock, Napoleon. So, Napoleon is with the EEs, and Red is in with the rest.) SO, I will be VERY eggcited to see my biddies hatch and grow! Sorry for carrying on, but this is the place and my family is sick of hearing about my chicks!!!
Happy Hatching!!!!
My first time incubating, I've got me a borrowed Little Giant. No way of checking humidity, so we're all just guessing
So I pulled a room temperature (a chilly 60-3) egg that was waiting to be washed and eaten and stuck it in there for good measure. Unfotunately, when I had my lunch and left the coops for 1 (1!) hour, two eggs were laid and I've no idea whose they were. So, there are only three positive mother IDs: one of the best buff Plymouth Rocks, Matri, my very yellow Golden-Laced Wyandotte, aptly named Yellow, and the favorite of the barnyard, THE most friendly, inquistive bird ever, an EE named Tawnbomb. So that's five, the other six are just random collections.
We have two roos and two coops. (For some reason, my knuckleheaded GLW roo 'Red' decided a month ago that he didn't like my dad's white Plymouth Rock, Napoleon. So, Napoleon is with the EEs, and Red is in with the rest.) SO, I will be VERY eggcited to see my biddies hatch and grow! Sorry for carrying on, but this is the place and my family is sick of hearing about my chicks!!!
Happy Hatching!!!!
