I started our family's first flock by incubating eggs from a friend and they also let us use their incubator. This was the first of March this year. They gave us 11 eggs. Just a couple or a few days into having started the process, we also had a huge storm come through. We were fine but lost power for over 24 hours. My first concern was the eggs and I had done a little research in anticipation of likely losing power. Our water heater is propane powered so we still had hot water. I soaked a towel with hot water for humidity and rang it out to just damp, put it in a soup pot, then the eggs were nestled in the towel then covered with the pot lid. I then lit a tea light candle, put it under an upside-down metal kitchen colander and then sat the pot on the colander. I had a thermometer/humidity reader from keeping plants and I kept that inside the pot with the eggs to keep track of the temperature and humidity level. Both numbers were lower than suggested but were really close. All in all, we had one egg that had been fertilized but upon candling, had stopped developing (the embryo was smaller) and didn't hatch, but the other ten all hatched! We now have twenty-one week old chickens and are impatiently waiting for our first egg any day! 😊

@purplethumb7887

9 ай бұрын

Well done! Congrats!

Fascinating! Thank you for all the info and your children are so sweet! We received our 15 chicks Saturday and it’s been wonderful!

My goodness, I am so thankful for your videos.🎉 I am new to owning hens and raising chicks. Hatched our first check today and had I not watched this video yesterday, my first check would not have made it. I don’t know that my instincts are so natural when it comes to baby chicks. Nonetheless, thank you so much for doing what you do because I have learned so much on your channel. God bless you.😅

What a great video. Glad most of the eggs hatched. 👍🏾🌱

Great video, thanks for sharing!

New to your page, love your videos!

@AcresOfAdventure

11 ай бұрын

Welcome, thanks for watching 😁

I think the black ones are black copper marans instead of splash maran

@AcresOfAdventure

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I agree. A little bit of a bummer but I know people do like those chickens

@lynnemalone284

11 ай бұрын

​​@@AcresOfAdventure I love the look of your chicken feed. All the veggies in it. Where do you buy it? I know you talked about it in a prior video but I can't seem to find it.

Great Video!!❤

@AcresOfAdventure

11 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Hatching out the chickens is one of our families favorite thing to do.

Sweet! Splash over splash is ALWAYS splash. 100% You've got some black copper Marans, in my opinion. 😊 Love the videos keep 'em coming!

@AcresOfAdventure

11 ай бұрын

Yes that what I figured, I just will leave them out of my hatching egg project. Thanks for watching 😁

@meditatiigermana7568

11 ай бұрын

Yes, those black ones are black copper Marans. @AcresOfAdventure look and the light ones carefully, there has to be 2 different shades. It depends a lot on what kind of colors they used to obtain the splash. When breeding Marans: Splash x Splash: 100% Splash Black x Black: 100% Black Blue x Black: 50% Blue, 25% Black, 25% Splash Blue x Blue: I forgot what you get out of this combination but I think are 50% Blue, some splash and some black Blue x Splash: 50% Splash, 50% Blue

😮❤ nooooooo! Leave them in there! They can stay 2 days to be sure the others don't " shrink wrap " in their eggs😮😮😢 But it's SO EXCITINGLY 🐥🐤🐣 ❤i hatched only 2 batches so far, but earliest was 20 day, latesr 25.

Good afternoon, I missed your video where you were trying to re-home your roosters by the time I saw your video it was too late. I am also in Michigan and if you hatch out any more eggs and you have a rooster I would like the opportunity to get him.

@AcresOfAdventure

10 ай бұрын

We would love to give our roosters a new home if we hatch out more

I've hatched 5 or 6 batches with a very low hatch rate. My sister gave me a broody hen and we got 4 out of 5 with her.

@AcresOfAdventure

11 ай бұрын

Our incubator does a very good job hatching out eggs

@JourneyWithUs13

11 ай бұрын

❤❤❤How exciting 😊so makes me wantb2 do it even more!

@purplethumb7887

9 ай бұрын

@@AcresOfAdventure Which incubator do you have?

Super cute

Where in michigan are you? I'm in the Thumb, Watrousville.

I don’t know much about splash Marans but I wonder if it’s one of the colors that doesn’t breed true. Or maybe a couple Black Coppers got mixed in.

@AcresOfAdventure

11 ай бұрын

I’m guessing a black copper maran, I just won’t have it be part of our hatching egg project

Arh you kids love those chicks there faces ,unfortunately some chicks dont have the energy to make it

What brand is your incubator?

@AcresOfAdventure

11 ай бұрын

Nurture right 360

I'm sorry for you . But you had a good percentage of hatching. And that part of farming and life. Good video tho.

That was a good rate though ❤❤❤❤

@AcresOfAdventure

11 ай бұрын

Yes it was!😬

Try hemp bedding and you’ll never use those wood shavings again!

@AcresOfAdventure

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for that tip!

@lasumm

11 ай бұрын

@@AcresOfAdventure It’s more expensive, but you’ll change it less often and the chicks love it!

Omgossh seriously I just can’t do that part lol I’m to much of a cry baby lol

@AcresOfAdventure

11 ай бұрын

It’s hard but I just need to know to see if it is something that we did wrong or anything like that

❤😊Cute lil family, Hi 👋 Babies and so cute 😍 so would have to incubate fertilised eggs 🥚 that I can get from the same guy I got the chickens 🐔 from via 📫 so thanks for an insight into the process ❤ Much Appreciated 👍 from @JourneyWithUs