It's okay, I definitely feel the weight of other people's pets in my care usually. I was just hoping that unhatched eggs wouldn't provoke that kind of response. They are lives and I will ofcourse tend to them to the best of my ability but there does come a point where additional stress is not going to be helpful and I tend to stress....a lot. Go check out starting around feb 23rd of last year for full details lol. I was a wreck. Hoping to be less of a wreck this time.
This hatch is already not going well. My brilliant plan was to go back to the farmers market where I got my red chicken eggs (wilson, penny, maggie) and just get more of those, after all, that worked out great.
I get there and no one has eggs. I see some people that look like maybe they are the right people, but no eggs? I lurk around kind of at a loss, trying to decide what to do when some other people walk up and this lady produces eggs for them. So I go up and ask her about eggs and she says she has one extra dozen...so I guess they've gone to a pre order system. Well darn it. I agree to buy the dozen but it's not ideal. They were packed 3 days ago which isn't too bad but she went and got them out of a fridge...which I know isn't the end of the world but since she only had a dozen for me I don't even want to waste one breaking them to see if fertile. These chicks are not having a great start! I'm not feeling terribly optimistic.
I put out a plea on my local facebook chicken group and I will hopefully be getting some eggs tomorrow. Guy lives about an hour away but works in the same town as me so as long as he remembers them, I'll be getting more eggs. Means I won't be able to set them today which further messes up my plans but if it works out I guess it'll be okay.
In other news, Midge continues to be semi broody. I see her off the nest more than on, but she has started to linger over the eggs after laying hers for hours, which is the first thing that happened when she went broody last fall. I noticed she would sit for several hours after laying. At this point I'm not really interested in her being broody so I'm going to have to keep chucking her out and hopefully keep her from going full on broody.
Last couple of days have been 6/6 days. 4 so far today and we'll probably stay at 4. One is Midge's so she is still laying.
This hatch is already not going well. My brilliant plan was to go back to the farmers market where I got my red chicken eggs (wilson, penny, maggie) and just get more of those, after all, that worked out great.
I get there and no one has eggs. I see some people that look like maybe they are the right people, but no eggs? I lurk around kind of at a loss, trying to decide what to do when some other people walk up and this lady produces eggs for them. So I go up and ask her about eggs and she says she has one extra dozen...so I guess they've gone to a pre order system. Well darn it. I agree to buy the dozen but it's not ideal. They were packed 3 days ago which isn't too bad but she went and got them out of a fridge...which I know isn't the end of the world but since she only had a dozen for me I don't even want to waste one breaking them to see if fertile. These chicks are not having a great start! I'm not feeling terribly optimistic.
I put out a plea on my local facebook chicken group and I will hopefully be getting some eggs tomorrow. Guy lives about an hour away but works in the same town as me so as long as he remembers them, I'll be getting more eggs. Means I won't be able to set them today which further messes up my plans but if it works out I guess it'll be okay.
In other news, Midge continues to be semi broody. I see her off the nest more than on, but she has started to linger over the eggs after laying hers for hours, which is the first thing that happened when she went broody last fall. I noticed she would sit for several hours after laying. At this point I'm not really interested in her being broody so I'm going to have to keep chucking her out and hopefully keep her from going full on broody.
Last couple of days have been 6/6 days. 4 so far today and we'll probably stay at 4. One is Midge's so she is still laying.
They are afraid of me and the scary smart phone. Silly girls.
