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Well, I had a crappy night and day today. Last night my upper lungs started hurting and I kept getting light headed and losing breath....aka....lung cold. So I took a chest cold pill and it did help some. I was tired but I wanted to candle some eggs, so I took several out and was overjoyed at all the moving lil chickies!

That was all trashed (well mostly) this morning. I was sick all night long, tossing and turning, gasping for breath, and feeling like I was having a heartattack (I know I wasnt but it hurt). I FINNALLY passed out to sleep at around 5 am but before it I checked my incubator temp....it was fine, I think it read 100.7 which is fine. I woke up at noon, and the first thing I always do is check the incubator.... 108!!!!!! AND the fan had fallen on an egg, thankfully didn't break it. SEVERAL chick embryos were killed because of this. I cried. Lol. I also opened up the eggs that were gone to just make sure I was right.....5 were dead, but 2-3 I opened up were still alive and I was so mad at myself.

Luckily I had eggs in the fridge that are fertile (we were eating them) and now they're in the bator as well! LOL! And my good ole hen outside gave me an egg as well, it's a mutt baby in the egg if it develops but I don't care at this point. :) Like one BYC told me, it's still VERY early in the season, so he told me to keep trying. :) Everyone was so supportive on there to me, if I wouldnt have that support system I would have just given up.

I just want to hatch some chicken chicks! *takes a tantrum* LOL! I hatch quails pretty easily but I always have some sort of bad luck with chicken chicks. I have YET to sucessfully hatch a chicken chick. Jan 17th my first are due to hatch.

I might be getting some silkie eggs again too it looks like :) I'm not going to get excited yet about it though, we'll see what happens. Even if I get them, no guarrentees they'll hatch with my darn ole luck! :)

I'm feeling better since I took another pill, but I'm sure I'll feel horrible again tonight....I'll be paranoid the whole time about the eggs in the incubator now too...on top of feeling like crapola.

I was just outside, its' freezing cold again so my incubator temperature is going down again which means i need to turn it up again AHH i hate that! LOL! I wish the weather would make up it's mind! It's gotten so bad that some of the male coturnix outside are crowing! IN JANUARY!!! Theres beena lot of sun and enough warmth obvoiusly they feel content lol!

They wont be tonight though *burr* It's snowing lil ice balls.

well off to monitor the 'bator and watch John Edwards :)