by Shawn | Apr 19, 2020 | Chickens, Homesteading, Incubation
We followed the process of settling our shipped or purchased eggs. We collected the eggs from your girls. Now you are ready to set the eggs. Of course, you set up the incubator at least a day ahead and you know the temperature near the top of the eggs is going to be...
by Shawn | Apr 17, 2020 | Chickens, Homesteading, Incubation
We are growing our second batch of “in-house” incubated eggs. As we have had rooster issues, aggressive Barred Rocks (tasty), to old Welsummer (tasty), and Leeroy (yes his name has two e’s) who is young, scared, but currently mating. We decided to...
by Kristin | Mar 24, 2020 | Homesteading
It’s been at least a week since our last snowfall, so of course our thoughts and actions turn to spring. Shawn built an incubator and we hatched our first eggs. There was a bit of a learning curve as we played with temperature and humidity settings and figured...
