Well, here we go again!!!
Hatch #4 just arrived via our lovely mail delivery lady, our Red Golden Pheasant eggs!!!
Skip had been telling everyone about the eggs that I'd ordered for him...so I told him the truth, today, while he helped me unpack them.
Skip: I'm so glad you are cool with this and ordered these eggs for me!
Me: Well, um, I need to tell you something...the first time I saw a picture of those birds I just knew I had to have some (red is my favorite color)...but I never said a word because I didn't want to push my luck by adding to the ever-growing menagerie. So, I kinda kept quiet until you saw a pic of them.
Skip: Okay...
Me: Remember how quickly I went on the search to find hatching eggs for them, after you told me we HAD to have a few? Well, it was all a set-up, I just let you think I was getting them for you...I used you as my "Skip-goat"/scapegoat (we always make jokes about each others' names).
Skip: No worries, Babe, glad you wanted them that bad, too!
Whew!!!
I'm glad he has been bitten by the hatching bug as bad as I have been.
He helped me unpack the eggs so they can settle before we put them in the bator. There are still a few of our eggs in there but all is quiet. I'm going to warm a towel in the dryer to put our unhatched eggs in, just incase a few more decide to hatch...while I clean/disinfect the bator. I never got a chance to remove the turner before our eggs began hatching as they started early, according to the dates I had written down...
Dawn
edited to add...Got the bator cleaned and set the eggs at approximately 6 p.m.. They're so tiny next to the banty eggs...will post pix as soon as I get them off the camera.
Hatch #4 just arrived via our lovely mail delivery lady, our Red Golden Pheasant eggs!!!
Skip had been telling everyone about the eggs that I'd ordered for him...so I told him the truth, today, while he helped me unpack them.
Skip: I'm so glad you are cool with this and ordered these eggs for me!
Me: Well, um, I need to tell you something...the first time I saw a picture of those birds I just knew I had to have some (red is my favorite color)...but I never said a word because I didn't want to push my luck by adding to the ever-growing menagerie. So, I kinda kept quiet until you saw a pic of them.
Skip: Okay...
Me: Remember how quickly I went on the search to find hatching eggs for them, after you told me we HAD to have a few? Well, it was all a set-up, I just let you think I was getting them for you...I used you as my "Skip-goat"/scapegoat (we always make jokes about each others' names).
Skip: No worries, Babe, glad you wanted them that bad, too!
Whew!!!
I'm glad he has been bitten by the hatching bug as bad as I have been.
He helped me unpack the eggs so they can settle before we put them in the bator. There are still a few of our eggs in there but all is quiet. I'm going to warm a towel in the dryer to put our unhatched eggs in, just incase a few more decide to hatch...while I clean/disinfect the bator. I never got a chance to remove the turner before our eggs began hatching as they started early, according to the dates I had written down...
Dawn
edited to add...Got the bator cleaned and set the eggs at approximately 6 p.m.. They're so tiny next to the banty eggs...will post pix as soon as I get them off the camera.
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