Connie works for Valley Co-Op and got me a heck of a deal on a still air incubator. $30 for a brand new Farm Innovators model. I'd left 12 marked eggs in the nest boxes hoping to entice a hen to set them, and been holding a weeks worth of eggs on the counter at a time hoping. Every day I went out and no one seems interested.
Don't these chickens understand that I lovingly go out every day and spread scratch grains and layer pellets for them? I make sure they always have fresh water to drink. I leave them to roam all over the property and never complain about stepping in a wet chicken turd when I go out on the porch at night in my stocking feet. I clean popped on shavings out of their chicken condo that Scotty built just for them so nothing will eat them in the night time while they sleep. Is it too much to ask for just one hen to want to settle her fluffy feathered ass on some eggs for me for 20 days?
So Connie got an incubator .
We set it up in the office and let it run it over night to make sure it held it's temp at 99.5, and put 26 eggs in the next morning. I have 9 green EE's, 3 olive EE's, 9 little Cochin, and 5 cream eggs from either the White Rock or the Austra White. The roo's are either my splash Polish, or the White rock.Today is day one, 20 to go, WOOT!!!
Here's the possibly Daddies
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| The Captain |
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| Einstein |
Mommas
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| Easter Eggers |
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| Speckles- Austra White |
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| Cochin Orpington |
The White Rocks, and the Austra White carry the Barred gene. The Polish carries the blue gene. The EE's have the blue/green egg gene, so it should be really fun seeing what I get out of these eggs.
Jacqui, sounds to me like you'll be able to have colored eggs for easter. Imagine, not having to mess with dyes and stuff to color eggs, just take them out of the Bator and hide them around for the hunt. Just think of the time you've saved for other things. We lov's ya. Dad and Letty
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up to the Country Fair Blog Hop. I can't wait to see the chicks when they hatch!
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