The Count Down!!!

The Count Down Has Begun!!!!

In less than three days our new family members will be here.

The eggs started rocking back and forth several days ago.

It was so weird.  We were standing next to the incubator and 

I noticed it first, then my mom.  My oldest brother, Andrew walked up 

and said "Why are the eggs rocking back and forth?"

Those little guys are ready to make an entrance and move into 

bigger living quarters.

I started out with seven fertile eggs, sent to me by Sue from the Pocket Farmer

My Brinsea incubator holds seven eggs.

Shipping fertile eggs is risky.  So many things can happen to keep the eggs from

hatching out.  At the first candling, I learned that one egg did not start the development stage.

That could be for any number of reasons. Not fertile, damaged in shipping somehow 

or compromised by bacteria.  I removed that egg.  

The six remaining eggs were candled at 10 day. All looked great accept for

 two that were developing but not at the same rate.

I left them in and decided to check on them a little later on.

Day 18 and time to check the "rocking" eggs.

The two eggs in question were indeed in trouble.  One developed a chick but the chick died 

early. I am not sure why.  The other egg, started developing and then stopped.

   The other four are strong and ready to hatch.  

I can not wait to meet them!