Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

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Awwww... those little fluff balls are the best.
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lindz, you did the right thing from start to finish. you took him in, gave him a real chance... so finding him a good home is the best ending and y'all fostered your first dog.
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Scrambles, is she molting from a new spot? molts up here take almost 3 months to complete for the majority of the flock. starts in one spot, fills in then whoosh, they drop a new section. it could be she's just not finished molting... I've been raking feathers mostly in the dome, for a month and still, everyday... lots and lots of feathers. the Fosters don't seem to shed much in the pen, but I find their feathers in the yard.
 
Cheeka.....
We have fostered several dogs in the past. It is just disappointing when one you plan on being there for ever doesn't work out. When you get one knowing its temporary it is much easier to let them go.
 
I didn't mean to post the picture without text, but I was messing with a new system on my phone, then Jazlyn started crying. She got here around 8, wearing a onesie and several blankets. I won't get into a major rant about that. I have 2 sleepers and a light outfit (it has pants to it. That is an improvement!). She was warm enough today. Even when getting the mail and seeing the turkeys. Tomorrow she goes next door to her other aunts and grandmother. The Pack n Play got here in time for her long nap today (thank you, Amazon!). I hope to find more clothes for her soon. Even if I have to order them. We don't have much as far as stores around here. Even the mall an hour away was a disappointment. The big stores all compressed their stuff, and now you have to use their online store. I didn't find a single blanket sleeper.
 
wow so much to catch up on!

We had our second perfect day ever yesterday but hubby COOKED several of my blue eggs this morning so counting today's I have 7 eggs for my experiment.  I think I'll take tomorrow's too and call it good.  I don't want to waste a ton of eggs and I'm really only doing this for science.

Both times I went out to collect eggs today, Midge was sitting on the nest.  She is like that, most days she will spend a few hours sitting.  I got in late because I went to the game and when I got back around midnght, I went out to get the eggs and found midge still in the box and one of the reds also occupying a box.  The red was probably just a result of some jostling or something.  Midge though....I am wondering if she might be going broody.  I'm a first timer so I don't really know but I will keep an eye on her tomorrow and see what she does.  I was in and out all day today so I didn't spend a lot of time with the girls but I never saw her out today.

If she spends all day on the nest again tomorrow, I may just stick my blue eggs under her for my experiment.  I do hope she's not though, I didn't really want to have to break a broody in my first season of chicken ownership.  I probably won't eat her sit on the eggs actually because if she is I want to break her as quick as possible poor thing.

So my plan for my science experiment is this:

Put the eggs in the bator tomorrow
Wait 3 days and candle to look for any development (I expect NONE or at best minimal, disorganized something going on but not proper development)
Wait a couple more days and candle again.
Around day 6 or 7 I will open the eggs unless I can see that i am growing the immaculate chicken conception savior of poultry.  In that case I will charge admission to my back yard for people to see it because it is either a miracle or a total freak of nature.  There isn't a roo for miles but some of those eggs have a definite bullseye on them.  The last one I saw which was yesterday when I made the muffins was even more distinct than the one I posted a pic of, but I was too lazy to go get my phone to snap a pic of it.

It's weird.

But we're going to do some science up in here!

My husband will not be thrilled if I fire up that bator...
 
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I just looked outside. No sign of midge. I had toyed with the idea of giving her the science eggs to sit on but I don't want to encourage her. GAH. I didn't want to have to deal with broodiess yet. I want a do over.
 

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