Friday, July 20, 2012

Heidis new chicks - the first disaster


 I ordered recently a few hatching eggs for Rhode island Red chickens. My neighbour was so kind and borrowed me a infra-red light and so I did setup all right, 37 C on the surface oof the egg, humility was guranteed since I did setup the eggs in the utility room.

However, I didn't fix the lamp right, so it slided down and it was way to close to the eggs. I only noticed 30 minutes later, touched a egg and it was pretty hot.
To check the status, I cracked one, and there you see, it was half way cooked already :-(

So I had 6 pretty expensive breakfast eggs...

I ordered again some eggs and hopefully this time I make all right and can report than the new additions to Heidi's Family.

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