Chickens

Well, it is official.  None of our eight eggs that we incubated have survived.  Yesterday we removed the eggs from the incubator. Since I was curious as to what happened to our eggs, I opened them up by the compost pile.  What did I find?Three full size chicks, one partially developed chick and four very…

This is day 8 of our incubation project.  In this video, we talk about what temperature to keep the eggs at and how to do that successfully without a thermostat.We plan on doing a almost daily video documenting our experience as novice, small scale, home egg hatchers. Please be sure to follow us on Facebook as well as Twitter…

I had a comment the other day that I needed to cover basic egg fertilization. So, our video today quickly talks about egg fertilization 101.  If you try using Egg-lands Best or your local supermarket’s eggs, you will only “hatch” a bunch of rotten eggs.  Local grocery stores only carry unfertilized eggs. If you want…

This is day 4 of our incubation project.  In this video, we cover how we made the incubator and how it cost us mere pennies to make.  You can also read our original post from last year on more details on how we made this.We plan on doing a almost daily video documenting our experience as novice,…

This is day 3 of our incubation project.  In this video, we cover turning the eggs and moving them around inside of the incubator.We plan on doing a almost daily video documenting our experience as novice, small scale, home egg hatchers. Please be sure to follow us on Facebook as well as Twitter for current updates.

Today is Day 2 of our incubation of eight chicken eggs.  Right now, not a lot is happening other than us turning the eggs twice a day and trying to keep the temperature somewhat stable.We plan on doing a almost daily video documenting our experience as novice, small scale, home egg hatchers. Please be sure…