We collected eggs from our sweet Americauna hen, Nala, added gift eggs from Ken Bushong of Buck Moore Feed Store and some brown ones from out home flock Hyline Browns and put them in Ken's incubator on our kitchen counter. (Does a counter in a one room home count as "kitchen"? :-)
Three weeks later-- they started hatching Sunday night and now on this Tuesday evening there are 6 all fluffed out in a little bin brooder in the corner and another 8 still wet and recovering in the incubator, or "bator" as the regulars call it. Here's a picture of one of Nala's (I bet Buddy is the daddy of this one) just out, still connected by cord to the egg shell behind it, and another one trying to pop out right in front of it.
One little bald character needed help getting out; the membrane had dried onto it, poor thing, and after a whole night stuck then trying to moisten it in the morning, in the afternoon I dribbled warm water into the shell cavity and worked it out, taking a bit of its fluff with the membrane. I am surprised it's alive, really, but once out, s/he commenced to alternative utter crash mode with careening about, just like all the other ones.
And then the 6 fluffballs in the bin... just started eating since I took this picture with my phone. What fun!
This is cute.! awesome blog.. :)
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