Chick update #2!

All five of the fertile eggs hatched!!! I now have the cutest little group of babies in my laundry room brood box! Three of them have markings like their barnvelder mother but with feathered feet like daddy. One is darker with feathered feet, hopefully will look like daddy. And one is marked like it's mother the americauna with the feathered feet like daddy! So all five have feathered feet! I can't wait to see what these little guys look like when they get bigger. To my husbands horror, I have cleaned and reloaded the incubator with 13 eggs. I think I may need another chicken coop ☺

Baby chick update!

The first three babies are doing great, I swear they have wings they are such little angels ☺ And egg number four just hatched!!!!! So as of right now four of the five eggs hatched cute little baby chicks!  I am about to get super busy with the party stuff, but I will post pics of my fluffed up youngens soon!

They've hatched!!!!!

This morning I woke to very loud peeping! One of the chicks had hatched ☺ It was like Christmas waking my youngest daughter up! When I got back home from dropping off my girls to school, my green egg baby had hatched ☺ While calling my husband to tell him the good news I noticed one more egg wiggling, grabbed my phone and video'd the hatching of the third ☺ I don't know how to get the videos off my phone, sorry because it was awesome! So as of right now three of the five eggs have hatched, I have the brood box warming up and ready to go. I'm a little nervous about the temp and humidity in the incubator for the baby chicks. The temp is 99.5 and the humidity has gotten as high as 85% I don't know if it's wet chicks making it rise or what. Should I lower the temp a hair? I may just leave everything as it is, they are peeping and sleeping so I think their okay! Happy Day!!!

Tuesday noonish ☺ ☺ ☺

Okay guys, can you see the small hole on the green egg above the pencil marked X? I am sooo excited!!!!!! I have a million things to do and I can already tell staring into the incubator is going to be priority number 1 ☺

Welcome ☺

I planted my fall garden just in time for another Oklahoma heat wave grrrr! So in addition to ALL of my normal chores, trying to plan this party, spruce up the house and yard, and protect the chickens from wild dogs. I have to double water and cover my new plants :p If they survive the next few days I will have quite the garden going! I planted romaine lettuce, brussel sprouts, broccoli, collard greens, carrots, potatoes, bunching onions, more cucumbers, and beets ☺ I got my kitchen painted and we bought a new dining room light. I can't quit staring into my incubator, I think I'm going to die from anticipation. I will post pics as soon as they hatch (fingers crossed). Now to the point of this post, I would like to welcome my newest followers Russell1200 @ http://reflexionesfinales.blogspot.com/ his blog is full of the latest goings on in the country you should check it out! And K @ http://planningandforesight.blogspot.com/ his blog has alot of helpful advise on prepping, witty guy you should check out his blog for sure! Thank you both for following ☺ Have a great week everyone!

Just a little gripe!

Not too long ago two of my chickens go really hurt from dogs that were running wild. Now my neighbor who is a friendly aquaintence has a boxer pup that has grown to the size of a goat. His new favorite thing to do is come in my yard and chase my chickens! I have a bit of angina when I see this happen!!! I'm pretty sure my chickens do too! Noone really has fences around here but I make sure all of my animals dog, goats, bunnies and chickens stay in our yard and they do for the most part. My dog does like to roam sometimes but she's 10#'s and wouldn't hurt any other animals. Most people don't understand that it's NOT JUST A CHICKEN! It's my chicken that I have raised for 6 months and am anticipating her laying eggs, or that I had raised for six months and she just started laying. You chicken people know what I mean. I only have nine chickens and I care about each one of them and I have had them all for at least six months! The other day I told my other neighbor hey watch out for my chickens when you leave and he casually said "Oh I will buy you another one if I run it over" This is my gripe when you come get your pup, who is chasing my chickens out of MY yard and you laughingly say "sorry". It's not funny! Me and four of my hens are having heart attacks right now sir! Also if my other neighbor did run over my chicken, it's not just replacing the chicken it's the time, feed, and love I have for them. I don't think they will understand EVER, but I'm thinking real hard about a fence to keep these other critters OUT of my yard!

Labor Day Weekend

Just a quick post before I get to work. Once a year for my daughters birthday I throw a pretty huge party. It's the only event we really have every year so I go all out to make sure everyone has a good time. The party usually carries over into the night for the adults too, so when this time comes all the things I have put off doing like paint the kitchen, replace the broken light in the dining room, etc. get on the to do list. So I will be busy for the next week, cleaning, planning, and preparing for this party.
Last night I looked at my remaining five eggs in the incubator. In two of the eggs I could see movement. Very promising! Squirty's five eggs were all duds I cracked them all open and it was just yolk. So tomorrow, I will raise the humidity and quit turning them and hope at least two hatch ☺ I have a dozen more eggs to incubate when these are done ☺
I'm going to get to painting now, but I will let you know about the babies by the end of next week. Enjoy the weekend y'all!