I just topped off the water pot on the Brinsea for the last time. I stopped turning last night. It wasn't doing much good. Several of the silly little things were rolling themselves back over. It was funny to watch them rocking themselves back and forth in the incubator. I have a feeling those chicks are going to be handfulls. Since my only experience with hatching has been with broodies this has been a real treat for me. So we are officially in lock down. Humidity and temp are holding. Now the waiting begins.
I'm just hoping for a good hatch. I told my husband that it would be weird if I did a better job with an incubator than my hens did. They were both young broodies one less than a year and the other 18 months. The younger one actually had better hatch rates than the older one but neither were anything to brag about. Hopefully I'll be seeing pips soon. I know me standing over them and yelling HATCH! NOW! isn't doing much good. So I guess it's in God's and the chick's hands....claws.....whatever.
She needs one of those aprons! She must squat for every roo that walks past her. Looks like it hurts. :/ Fertile eggs..you have fertile eggs! You are lucky. I want a rooster that won't make noise. I hear it happens. I keep hearing that, I just haven't been lucky enough to get one yet. Even with a color on, they get more active. I have close neighbors. They say they can't hear the rooster that I've kept at the time, but if I can hear it in my house, I know they can. Nice neighbors, I want them to stay that way, so, off goes the rooster once he becomes a real noise maker. I've gotten fertile eggs from some though. In fact, I have two girls out there from my last boy I had for a bit. An EE dad. One mom was a leghorn, I get a pretty pretty blue egg from her baby/hen. The other one's mom was a black sex link. At first, I got the prettiest Olive Egg from her..now, it's lightened to that blue/green color. Wow, never saw such a change in egg color!
