Friday, April 20, 2007
Chicks
Yippy!! Mom let the hen set!!  Badger has 11 eggs, but today we took two to put in our incubator. I'm hoping for chicks from the 20th of April to the 22nd. The hen is in the yellow barn, the cat's home, eeeek!! We have trouble keeping the barn bug-less though, as you can see, there are lots of bugs. At one point the eggs were crawling with them. So I put flea powder on the eggs, on top of the hen, and around the nest. It might have helped some. It didn't seem to me that there were too many bugs on the eggs yesterday, but there was lots in the area of the nest. So I have moved her into our rabbit nesting box. I put it behind a board in the hay - still in the yellow barn. Today when I got two eggs for the incubator I used a plastic bag because I didn't want bugs on me. When I got the eggs a whole bunch got on the bag and lots even got on me. I didn't even bother putting the hen back. I washed up and ran to the house so wouldn't get so many on me. Mom did some research and found out that they are chicken mites. I know from experience they are hard to squish. We are trying out some type of powder special for mites.
 The other day mom turned the incubator on to see if it worked. But yesterday morning it wasn't very hot inside. We thought it was because it was cold in the laundry room. But now I think that it might have partly been that our little thermostat wasn't set right. Now it is running a pretty steady rate of 100 to 101 degrees. And the humidity is about 72% right now.
We candled the two eggs yesterday and the airsack is very big. This means that it's life in the shell is almost over. Yippy! Hatching soon!  Squish!!! I just squished another mite. Ewwww!!!  |
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