From Town to Country: A Wife's Tale

• Friday, June 20, 2008 - Hatching eggs

This is from my journal at the farm. Its probably a late entry. I may make several entries a day to try to keep up with the backlog of entries I have:

3 more chicks hatched this am in the incubator.  Then 2 more hatched over the daytime.  That gives her a total of 10 chicks.  We candled the remaining 4 eggs, 3 had nothing in them and the other one's shell is so thick I can't see thru it as our light isn't strong enough (its an americana egg).  So Madison wants to keep that egg for a day or 2 and see what happens.

Madison has started collecting Clara's eggs for another batch.  Since Lucky and Clara are our only layers at this time, she isn't going to have a lot of eggs.  Right now, Lucky is hiding her eggs.

We did manage to find one of Lucky's nests.  It only had 4 eggs in it so there are probably others.  We have been searching for days trying to find where she's laying.  She's a white crested black polish so she's a non-setter.  So her eggs are going to waste if we don't find them.  Its like a Easter egg hunt that we keep losing.

We readied 10 broilers for butchering tomorrow.  I work tonight so I hope I can handle processing that many on little sleep.  We will skin them as its quicker and most of the chicken we eat is skinned anyway. 

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