I’m a little late getting around to it this year because of the way everything is happening everywhere all at once, but last night we put two and a half dozen hatching eggs in the incubators. I actually only ordered two dozen, but we were sent and extra six by one supplier.
They’re a mixture of Copper Black Marans, Cream Legbar and White Leghorn which I like for the lovely range of egg colours (and I want to try to cross the Marans and Legbars next year to see if we can get some green egg layers. If successful we will of course have to eat some of the eggs with ham. The other variety is Buff Orpingtons which my wife and daughter both like I think because they’re just so huge and fluffy. They always make me thing of the birds in the Chicken Run film.
So, today is H-20. I’ll whip the trays out in a couple of days to weigh them just to see if we’re getting the right kind of weight loss. Average weight at the outset was about 53 grammes.