HI, I set the 22nd in the evening.
Set about 14 or so BCM'S 2 ee, 5 slw's shipped in...( can you believe it, I dropped one)
and two blue, red laced wyn eggs that had started in someone eles inc. on the 29th of June.
Hope they are O.K. was out of onc about 2 hrs, but it was warm out and I put them next to my body
covered until we got home.
I'm nuts.pure and simple certifiable.
My last hatch was a bust..12 out of 29.shhhhhhhhhhhh.made me ill .Having a hell of a time with hydrometers........should have just bought a good one.Bought another one for 5 bucks at
petco...
but it reads different than my other two that I have calibrated.
I think it is the humidity that did me in last hatch.
Thank Goodness I have lots of eggs.
Just as a side note.I am so surprised that my BCM'S give an egg almost every day. I did not think they were such good layers.and big eggs.large to jumbo..What a treat, beautful chickens that are geat layers.
I also wish I had more Broodies.....so much easier and a real treat to watch them teach the babies.
I need to learn to do pictured..will try to write this so you can visuilize it.
The broody I had that hatched 11 chicks was not mine...........I chicken set this winter for friends that do winter in Hawii.
They took her home when the chicks were about 2 weeks old. They have speckled sussex hens.
They were afraid the two other hens would hurt the babies so they built a box to seperate the mama and babies.
Last week they had every one outside and decided to go shopping They attempted,( without success) to catch the chicks and put them and mama in the box. Finally they just left and hoped all would be O.K. When they returned they found all three hens very tightly together on thier roost..and chicks under and on top of, all three hens. They all live together now and all three hens are being mama. I have a photograph on email
but don't know how to get it up.
Anyway, just one more sweet chicken story....;Once more, so glad to have you to share the part of me my other friends do not understand.
Later
