Mulching in the garden may seem like a waste of time with no visible benefits to you or to your garden. But I can testify that mulching is one of the best techniques that I have ever learned. There are several different mediums that you can use for the purpose of mulch. If you know…
Baby Chicks Update
JIF (the chick in the back) and Moses (the front chick) It’s been a few days since I have posted an update about our baby chicks. Yesterday, our fourth and final chick decided to hatch. Everything seemed to be proceeding smoothly until about an hour after hatching, when the chick started to bleed all over…
Incubation Day 24: Three Successful Hatches, One On The Way
Today was a interesting day, caring for chicks for most of it. We started out the morning with making our brooding box for the newly hatched chicks. That took almost an hour just trying to find all the equipment. Then we noticed that one of the chicks seems to be having problems with one of…
Incubation Day 23: Two Have Hatched
Today was a day of lots of progress in the incubator. Our first chick to have pecked a hole in its shell is still working on escaping. However, around 8am, another chick cracked it’s shell. Then another chick did the same thing around 1pm. The one at 1pm was our fastest chick to emerge from…
Incubation Day 22: One Shell Has Cracked!
One of our eggs has made progress and now there is chip in the egg shell. If you look at the picture, the chip is at the base of the egg, just above the water dish. The chicks are still peeping away, and in one of the eggs you can hear the chick pecking away…
Incubation Day 20: Video Of Movement
Today is incubation day 20 and there really hasn’t been any changes with the eggs in the last 24 hours. They are still moving around a lot with only a few chirps coming from the shells. I’m not sure you can see it all that well in the video but some of the eggs are…