Tonight Cam and I placed 18 duck eggs in the cooler-bator.
My husband and my cousin made this fancy incubator last spring out of a cooler and some computer parts. It's surprisingly accurate and has since hatched several dozen chicks and ducklings.
These are the last of Lou's eggs, so we are hoping for at least a 50% hatch rate. Ideally you should incubate eggs only seven days after they are laid. However, with Lou's sudden death and the constant threat of inclement weather, we wanted to make sure all the conditions were ideal before we put all our eggs in one basket.
See what I did there?
This is the first time we have incubated eggs on our own without the help of my cousin, who is all the way in London giving directions and advice via text. I am hoping we will be successful, but only time will tell. In about ten days we will candle our eggs to check for growth. We are hoping to have several babies here soon!
In other news, our female Oberhasli was born early Friday morning in Georgia on Maynard's Farm. We are so excited to have an official pair!
This is her sweet mom, Little Bit.
We cannot wait to have the goats join us on the farm!
Now to build the goat barn...
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