The Newbie Hatching Chronicles.

[Rakaiachick]

Absolutely beautiful

 

[ChicKat]

What type of thermometers do you use in your incubators? What type is your go-to? Be it dial, digital or the old school with the rising liquid?

The incubator I have has thermometer on the control panel. It's a cheapie 'no name' from China via Amazon. I wanted to know humidity. Had one once that did tell humidity. Long story short I got another Amazon product to verify temp and humidity. Then it didn't exactly match temp on the incubator control indicator.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WCR5Y4B?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_dt_b_product_details

Is that like when you have more than one clock in your house the two never agree?

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Thank you @ChicKat !

Okay
Now to my story.
I've been searching around and checking out websites and forums about starting a line of leghorns.
Gold Duckwing Leghorns to be exact.
I'd been doing much research and inquiries, and I decided I was going to order my foundation stock from a hatchery. Being as,the only established flocks that I saw were based overseas, Europe,Australia, and New Zealand,with the exception of a few scattered breeders here and there in the U.S. that were keeping their cards close to their chest.
At the same time I struck up a conversation and correspondence with a very nice person here on the BYC forums and I discovered the line she was working with, I fell in love with it immediately and figured I could work with them as well and help continue the line of these beautiful birds.
After corresponding with her for a while,she decided she could trust me with her work and she graciously shipped me some eggs. As you can see in the pictures above they are quite beautiful and exquisite birds in my opinion.I was HONORED and humbled.
I fired up my Hova Bator which I had in storage from last year-we also breed parrots,more on the Hovabator later- and started planning.
So a shipping date was decided upon and off the box went through the mail service.
Using the tracking number,I followed that little box as diligently as a child tracks Santa on the Santa Tracker channel at Christmas time.
Well,the Box arrived and I swear it was like that box came straight from Fort Knox;the giddiness,anticipation and honor then I felt receiving those eggs.
I thought "What potential,what beauty, what's going to be a result of these eggs?
I placed them immediately straight in my incubator.