Got my Incubator & getting more chickens!

Soo I got my incubator! It's more awesome, and MUCH bigger than I thought i'd be! I can litterally pull the egg trays out and hide in there if I needed to ha ha ha! Theres four trays, and each can hold 100 chicken eggs! It can also hatch anything from quail to goose eggs. :) I highly doubt I'll be hatching any geese eggs unless someone asks me to, otherwise for me...no...MAYBE pilgrims someday but I doubt it.

My friend Brian now has me interested in Black East Indies ducks. He acts like he was the one that got me interested in them, but nope nope...I myself got interested in them from a picture he took of his dads! hehe! Though Brian did tell me a lil bit about them and that helped fuel my interest so I'll give him credit for that I guess ;P. They are just really pretty, black with a purple hue!

I just told a breeder I'll be sending them out mula for a half doz. Blue Laced Red Wyandotte eggs! OH my gosh I cannot wait for those! In this new incubator, as long as they ship here well I should have a decient hatch. Even if I get half, I will be over joyed! Even if I got two I'd be okay. :) If this half doz. come to me fine I'll order again to make a complete dozen BLRWs!

Also, it sounds like I'm going to be getting Black and possible split lavender standard Ameraucana hatching eggs from another BYCer! I had paid her for bantam amers because that's all I thought she had. To find out she's offering me Standards because her banties arent laying well is exciting enough but to hear some may hatch out possible split lavenders! That's so exciting it's unreal! I can't wait to hear back from her on that !:)

Tomorrow I'll get my coturnix eggs in the mail! Got my White Leghorn hatching eggs in a swap the other day and just put them in tonight :)

Clear the way! Hatchaholic who can't help herself! LOL!

*weeeeee*!

Chicks are here with more on the way AND more eggs

The madness never ends I guess! :)

I had two chicks hatch...a male and female Golden Comet. I haven't named them yet, but boy oh boy are they cute! The chick in the picture is the male...the hen is slightly darker and smaller. The hen I am deffinatly keeping, and this male I am probably keeping as well because they'll be added into my large mutt pen of chickens in the spring, and the rooster that's up there already needs only one more hen to have his maximum amount of hens per rooster while holding fertility (12 hens per). I have several eggs (i think atleast 7 though I could be wrong) that I have to stop turning tomorrow! Many of which are Road Island Red eggs! :) I cannot wait to see those beauties! I just love RIRs! Esp roosters! Yep I plan to keep a rooster from that as well. I just love how big dark and shiney they are. :) So finnally FINNALLY I have baby chicken chicks to show for all my work i've done trying to bring them into this world. I was beinging to think I'd never hatch chicken chicks! I wasn't giving myself enough credit though. It wasnt my fault I lost those chicken chicks before...it was my incubators. I've slightly mastered the problem by rebuiling the incubator so that it's now mostly homemade and works much better.

Speaking of incubators! Still going this upcoming saturday to get the Sears Roebuck FarmMaster incubator!!! I called the guy and he said he fired it up the other day and its' holding temps steady at 102!!! I could shout at the roof tops im so happy! :) Cheesy saying but I am extreemly excited! That's really going to up my hatching odds!

I'm getting ATLEAST 30 coturnix hatching eggs from a fellow BYCer that I am estatic about (new blood can't pass that up)! For the generosity I will repay them with their choice from my birds in the spring/summer so I can't wait to repay too....giving a gift is just as fun as recieving a gift IMO. :)

These birds are just making me so happy, and theres enough of a want in others for the birds that I know within time (just months) they'll be paying for themselves in eggs. :)

Oh and also this week I'm getting mailed out a dozen White Leghorn eggs from a breeder I'm swapping RIR eggs with! :) My eggs ship out tomorrow for her, and I think she said she's shipping mine out to me as well tomorrow! :) So I'll get the fun job of tracking my eggs of both the coturnix and the WLH eggs. :) Makes my day! :)

I just couldn't be happier right now things are falling into a place where I finnally feel like things are going the way they should and that puts me at so much peace its' unreal. I don't know if I mentioned it in my last blog but I was very upset because hubbies promised raise was supposedly ignored and he wasn't going to get it! We went something like 4 days thinking he wasn't getting it and last night Ronnie called me from work saying I'd be very happy with the news he was about to tell me. Here, he IS getting the raise, but he's getting it a dollar and some change, at the end of every month, until march then he'll be making 16.50 an hour! :) Now he's at 13.50. :) So once he gets that raise I'll feel comfortable once again looking at houses for sale and drooling over them but for now all my focus is on these eggs and fluff balls that magically come out of them! LOL!

I cannot forget to mention that I went to SamGs house (another BYCer) and picked up the hens! They are ABSOLUTELY STUNNING! Ronnie and I are in love with the Blue Ameraucana, and I also LOVE the golden laced Wyandotte! :) They are all gorgeous though! The EEs are as cute as a button! *heart melts* I havent been able to get any good pictures of the girls yet because of all of the snow they are staying in their home....so I must wait. :)