Katie's Journal

I’m almost to the end of week 2 in the incubator, and am down to 7 eggs. I bought 12+. Apparently it’s common with hatching eggs to order 12, and then they throw in a few extras. I got 16. One cracked when I tried to get it out (must have been weak shelled or […]

(I originally wrote this July 17, it just somehow didn’t get published.) A week or so ago we had a pretty bad string of storms blow through one afternoon. We were safely ensconced in the house. Although I never gave it any thought at the time, my layer chicks were not. I’d only been letting […]