Look what happened at our house (the kitchen counter to be exact)! I thought for sure our precious eggs were doomed after a bit of a rough start AND a power outage...but life prevailed and so far, we have four beautiful little (and I mean teensy tiny) balls of fluff happily chirping in the brooder.
We received our eggs from Candace of Breezy Bird Farms in Winnipeg - a hatchery specializing in exotic poultry. If you get a chance, check out her Facebook Page as her photographs are beautiful...will make you want to get started on that coop.
When we received the eggs, they were FREEZING as they had been put in our outdoor mailbox - so I brought them home and warmed each egg up in my hand, popped them in the incubator (which I later learned, I shouldn't have done so quickly...oops) and nervously turned every few hours for the next couple weeks.
During this time, we had a power outage that lasted for several hours - the poor little creatures were quickly cooling as our fire had not yet started to warm up our home. As if that wasn't stressful enough, I accidentally scrambled the poor little guys when trying to move the incubator closer to the fire - oh man...by this point I was convinced they were doomed.
I had calculated our hatch day to be last Sunday/Monday - well those days came and went...as did Tuesday, Wednesday...and now here we were on Thursday. I was positive there was no life in that big styrofoam box on my counter when suddenly I heard peeping. My first thought; "dammit Juniper...now what have you caught" but then realized it was coming from the incubator. There, flopping around and chirping it's little heart out was, the cutest, slimiest, pinkest little baby bird. Then two...then three...then four!! There are still more eggs dancing around in there, so we'll see what happens. But these four have totally won my heart - oh man are they sweet!!
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