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farlaThe newest egg incubation was pretty objectively a disaster, starting from not finding the incubator for two days to having way too much humidity to finding out that apparently the eggs weren't stored in cold enough temperatures those two days because guess who started popping out of their eggs mere hours after the incubator stopped rotating, and it turned out three of five babies had been spun to the point their holes were made on the bottom side, which may have had something to do with how two of them insisted on breaking off the very top of the shell and trying to crawl out the hole to my terror so also to my terror I helped one out, and also I kept opening the incubator to remove the egg shells because something bad happened last hatching and we never figured out exactly what so better safe than sorry.
And yet - they were all fine! Just a lot wetter than usual. I didn't even have my usual constant nightmares during the incubation period - thank you, needy super-punctual yapdog and also thank you nervous stupidface cat who took three days to figure out we'd given the dog back during which we worried you were dead.
I bought "easter eggers" because I wanted Americauna for the slightly less than completely wild animalness and ebay people will call any blue-layer that anyway so why fuss, but they're actually full-on mongrel easter eggers who all have a distinct look and that look is adorable. One has feather feets!
They're another blonde, a dark stripey, light stripey, gray feather-feets, and another blacky. Initially, I thought they lacked the cute chipmonk cheeks, but it seems like that was just because they were insufficiently fluffed.
Optimism and a probably unscientific method likely based on sexism declares they are future hens. Failing that, apparently there's a collar to prevent roosters from crowing. Given the current hens spent this morning crowing for ten minutes, may be getting that for a test drive anyway.
And yet - they were all fine! Just a lot wetter than usual. I didn't even have my usual constant nightmares during the incubation period - thank you, needy super-punctual yapdog and also thank you nervous stupidface cat who took three days to figure out we'd given the dog back during which we worried you were dead.
I bought "easter eggers" because I wanted Americauna for the slightly less than completely wild animalness and ebay people will call any blue-layer that anyway so why fuss, but they're actually full-on mongrel easter eggers who all have a distinct look and that look is adorable. One has feather feets!
They're another blonde, a dark stripey, light stripey, gray feather-feets, and another blacky. Initially, I thought they lacked the cute chipmonk cheeks, but it seems like that was just because they were insufficiently fluffed.
Optimism and a probably unscientific method likely based on sexism declares they are future hens. Failing that, apparently there's a collar to prevent roosters from crowing. Given the current hens spent this morning crowing for ten minutes, may be getting that for a test drive anyway.
