Incubator Disaster

Ok, So bad news day. What else is new around here lately. The dogs somehow pulled the plug for the incubator out of the socket the other night and the temperature dropped down to 60 degrees and just about killed every egg. :(.......   Not happy at all. We have 2 guinea eggs which are hatching right now and a possible duck or goose egg that should hatch soon and 1 turkey egg left out of 8. Hopefully these will hatch. Wish us luck

New Baby Chick!!!!!

So we got a crappy incubator and we collected eggs from the chickens and the turkey and we bought some Muscovy ducks eggs from a man down the road to hatch, today was day 21 of the eggs being in the incubator and we woke up to a baby chick this morning. Yay!!! It is so dam cute. It has definitely been a challenge with this being the first time we have ever incubated eggs and being off grid. This thing sucks up some power and of course the weather hasn't seemed to cooperate with us at all, but I am sure that as soon as they all hatch the weather will be beautiful because we won't need the extra power. Anyway, we started off with 50 eggs now we are down to 30 after candling them a couple of times to see if anything was growing inside the egg. I definitely had to google how to do that, lol. Now the chickens are starting to hatch and we have 3 guinea eggs that should start to hatch soon too. The Turkeys and Ducks should take about another week and then we will see how many hatch altogether. Wish me luck.

Essay Winner

So for some reason the poll we put up so people could vote apparently didn't work. We know of a couple of votes that went through but for some reason on the second day they were gone and then no one else voted. So we declared it a 3 way tie. They were are really good and the kids worked hard on them and I couldn't pick just one. So thank you for stopping by to read them and I hope you all enjoyed them.