In textbooks style, our chicken eggs hatched exactly on day #19. We have had fertilized chicken eggs in an incubator on our kitchen island most of February. Just in case we might forget, Jeff labeled the incubator with the start date 🙂 Throughout the month, Jeff and Lars have been checking the content of the eggs with a very bright flashlight – watching the embryos grow and grow into tiny chicks.
Yesterday, the first chick emerged, and as of this evening, they all are officially hatched!! The chicks are now in an old tin washtub, lined with old sweatshirts under a rather intense heat lamp. In my kitchen! They have water and chick feed as well; and a thermometer, to make sure they are just warm enough. Seriously thinking of changing the name of this blog to “the chronicles of the farmer’s wife”. Chicks in the kitchen…really…
