Good Egg
During the heat of the summer it probably wasn't a good idea to get hatching eggs. The post office handled them so poorly many of them arrived broken and the box leaking. I gave up on hatching eggs until the weather started to get cooler. This morning I will set another batch of eggs.
This set of eggs is the long anticipated blue orpingtons and the pure bred blue/black americauna that lays a beautiful blue egg. (NOT a mutt bred chickens that lays a varied color of egg known as easter eggs/easter eggers.)
I have been carefully regulating the new incubator and happily anticipating the arrival of the eggs. The eggs were shipped monday morning and I received the box wednesday morning.
Every egg was perfect. Nothing broken. Everything appears to be in great shape. Even the weather has cooperated and remained in the upper 50's to the lower 70's. Hopefully this hatch will have better results than the last. I do blame the extreme heat as well as rthe rough handling of the post office for that lost batch of eggs. We checked the eggs after 25 days and only one had the slightest signs of a developing chick. It was very sad.
Wish me luck. I think I am going to need it. I am very nervous this time around. The six brown eggs are from blue orpingtons. Beautiful birds that live in the North Georgia Mountains. Send me good vibes. The perfect hatch would be 100% and 5 pullets and 1 cockeral. Yes, I do know I am blowing smoke! It doesn't hurt to ask for what you want!
The blue eggs are from blue and black americuanas. It would indeed be more wishful thinking to ask for a majority of pullets but I figure in for a penny, in for a pound. Come on pullets! I have eleven of these eggs. I don't know why the color washes out but I wish you could see how pretty and blue they are.
I know you all don't respond well to these posts I write about me and the livestock. I guess you all don't want to know all those mundane things but this is what is going on these days out here on the farm.
- Green Acres is the place to be - Farm Living is the life for me!
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Good Egg.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.bigredcouch.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/31
No, I really, really love the farm posts. Really.
I just don't always comment because, well, I'm like that these days.
Sorry..
I didn't comment on your last post but I did show the bread box incubator to Josh and he was rather impressed with your cleverness. And then I had a dream about you that night, that you had another baby, a girl, and she had a beautiful cafe-au-lait complexion, and honey-brown hair that was neatly corn-rowed. In other words, Steve was not the daddy. How do you like THEM apples?
One more thing: why aren't you submitting some of these entries for publication in on-line magazines or even print magazines like Mother Earth News? The photos are great, and you explain things very clearly. Plus, you've got all that folksy background knowledge from your Georgia childhood. Mother Earth News would eat that right up.
Good luck with this batch of eggs, Angie! And hey, I want to know about farm stuff!
I love these posts! I just figure that I don't have much to add. :)
I love your farm/livestock posts -- particularly the chicken ones. Someday, I will have room for chickens and I will have a few. I love living that dream vicariously through you. I've even looked up what your chickens will look like when they grow up! Best of luck -- keep us posted! I was amazed at your ingenuity in creating your own small incubator!
Do what MizS says about getting your stuff published. I'd read it and find it fasinating even if you wrote about your son eating dirt. It's not like I want to spend all day reading about sex, lol.
No! I love, love, love your farm posts. It's the (retired) farmgirl in me.
I LOVE reading these posts.
I am in awe of all that you do, and am silently contemplating a similar move.
At the moment, however, I would be thrilled to learn how to sew.