Chick Hatch Day- Day 2 18May

Surprise Surprise! One more egg hatched today! Poor little fellow was alone in the incubator with no friends.

Chick Number 7

colour: brownish

Time of Birth: 3.10pm

Three or Four chicks?

We should have done the candling last week to check on the eggs but we only them yesterday. It was an amazing experience witnessing the little movements happening inside the eggs. There should be 3 or 4 possible chicks and we are not sure about the rest. Papa Hen decided to keep all the eggs in the incubator until this Thursday, hoping for some miracles......

This Thursday we will stop rotating the eggs and increase the humidity in the incubator, making it ready for the chicks to hatch. We will be counting down to Sunday, hopefully we can witness the hatching process, where the little newborns will peek their way into Mother Earth....

Stay tuned chook fans!

Papa Hen

A new toy had arrived and it's Craig's new incubator. Off to Oakford to get some fertiled eggs today. I've only got 12 eggs and we placed them into the incubator. Chicks will hatched in 21days if they are successful. There is alot of work involved being a Papa Hen. Craig had to wash his hens...opps hands each time before he rotates the eggs. Mother hens will do it naturally but Papa Hen has to do it manually each morning and evening. The temperature of the incubator has to be well maintained at 37degrees as well.

After the 1st week, we can candle the eggs and see if the chicks are forming or not. Unsuccessful eggs should be removed to avoid "affecting" other healthy eggs.

It will be really interesting to see what breeds we get from these 12 eggs and how many will be successfully. The lady who sold us the eggs has serveral breeds and she has no idea which are the breeds we got.

Stay tuned to our hatching story....