.: project hatch 3

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

eggs!

We have our first egg!... truth be told, we had out first egg weeks ago and i'm just now blogging about it.

for the first few weeks we were only getting one egg every 2-3 days but now we're consistently getting one egg a day and sometimes 3 a day. so it seems that 3 of the 5 ladies are laying and eventually we should be getting 5 eggs a day! -- send over your eggcellent recipes today!

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

we're still alive!

it's true... we're all still alive, chicks included!

i'm starting to think we might actually get to the egg laying portion of chick rearing!

Friday, May 6, 2011

project hatch 3 - the 6 pack!

I've failed to give you a final count and account of the hatching project. my bad. Hatching started a day early (as it normally does for us) on Thursday. We'd observed lots of egg movement and peeping on Wednesday and by noon on Thursday #1 was out! In total we have 6 chicks, 3 yellow, 2 black & 1 brown. We almost had 7 but one gave up the good fight just before fully hatching. sad. Cam's brown egg did hatch with a yellow chick, 4 white eggs hatched and one of the blue eggs hatched with a beautiful brown stripped chick. Sadly none of the green eggs hatched. The last to hatch came into the world with some drama and I was almost certain it would die or i'd need to help it die. Thankfully by morning the little guy was doing much better. They are all doing well and becoming less content with living in a box so I maybe transferring them outside at least during the day and brining them in at night for a few weeks. Next step is to reinforce the coop and to start opperation: keep chickens alive! easier said than done.