Tag: chicken eggs
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Longer days lead to more eggs
A little bit more sunlight each day and the chickens start to lay.
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Bertha’s Lemon Pound Cake
Bertha was my husband’s mother. Like me, she moved to Greenville with her husband. She was originally from up north, possibly New York City. She was half Cherokee and half descended from African slaves in America, but she never spoke much about her life before coming to Greenville and raising her eight children. According to her…
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Hungry Chicks
I’ve been posting cute chick pics lately but make no mistake about it, I took the leap with incubating eggs for the home grown meat. I’m feeding these hungry chicks now, in order to feed my family this summer. Some of these chicks have less than two months to live.
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It’s a New World
I am no longer an incubator virgin. I would say that I had a positive initiation experience.
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It’s a New World
I am no longer an incubator virgin. I would say that I had a positive initiation experience.
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Early Birds
I always thought that the expression, the early bird catches the worm, meant that if you were prepared and got up early in the morning, you would be rewarded. But now I’m wondering if it first came from the idea that the early bird, the one that breaks free first, would surely get the first…
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Eggxiety
Wednesday afternoon is the expected time for them to start pecking their way out of their little worlds into the bigger, badder world waiting for them. I know first hand now what it means to say, ‘don’t count your chickens before they hatch.’
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Candling Inconclusive
After candling my eggs, I can only say that it was awkward, and I feel like I should have left well enough alone.
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Incubator Ignorance
I received a free electric candling device with my new incubator. It’s supposed help me determine what’s really going on between me and my eggs. Here’s to hoping that the eggs will reveal their true intentions, and our relationship will remain on good terms.
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Today’s the Day
Eight to ten weeks after that we will start eating our own organic chicken meat and I will finally feel like our rooster is earning his keep around here!
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Getting to Know my Incubator
Now, at around noon I seem to have attained the ideal conditions for a lasting relationship. So now my plan is to get on more intimate terms with my incubator while collecting the best looking eggs from my hens for the next couple of days.
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Getting to Know my Incubator
Now, at around noon I seem to have attained the ideal conditions for a lasting relationship. So now my plan is to get on more intimate terms with my incubator while collecting the best looking eggs from my hens for the next couple of days.
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Ready for a First Date
The stories that people shared with me about making their own made me feel confident that I don’t need one of the deluxe models to hatch some chickens.
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About that Incubator
My idea of what’s natural is pretty half baked when it comes to chickens. We’re in a compromised situation. In 2016 there is hardly such a thing as a “natural” chicken, that would just “naturally” sit on her eggs until they hatch.
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Our First Egg
“Well you should have eggs by now,” said the cashier. That’s what I was thinking. We’ve fed and watered them, cleaned up after them, and laughed at them too, for five months. But I was standing there at the register, like a virgin, having heard plenty of talk, read and looked at plenty of literature,…