Even though the chicks are extremely cute, I must admit I am most excited about the second addition...John, Elizabeth and Pete!!...just 5 1/2 hours away!! We need a picture with the three of you! :)
Darcy, Those little chicks are adorable! Did you have any idea they were coming? This may be a dumb question, but how could you tell those eggs apart from the ones you gather to eat? I'm not much of a farmer, I guess.
Good question Elizabeth! I didn't think of that. Also, at the risk of sounding/being in the dark, don't you have to have a rooster for the eggs to become chicks...and I didn't think you had roosters....
Well, actually Liam and Katie ordered fertile eggs from a guy near State College who supplies fertile eggs and chicks for school classroom projects, etc. Fortunately, we have a VERY motherly hen who has been trying to sit on all the non-fertile eggs that the hens have been laying. Needless to say, she's been in high heaven since the chicks were born.
In answer to Elizabeth's question, you can eat fertile eggs if you harvest them within a day or two. It takes three weeks of constant heat to produce a chick, so even when we had a rooster, we would eat the eggs that the hens laid because we'd snag them within a few hours. Bon appetite, eh?
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Even though the chicks are extremely cute, I must admit I am most excited about the second addition...John, Elizabeth and Pete!!...just 5 1/2 hours away!! We need a picture with the three of you! :)
Darcy,
Those little chicks are adorable! Did you have any idea they were coming? This may be a dumb question, but how could you tell those eggs apart from the ones you gather to eat? I'm not much of a farmer, I guess.
Good question Elizabeth! I didn't think of that. Also, at the risk of sounding/being in the dark, don't you have to have a rooster for the eggs to become chicks...and I didn't think you had roosters....
That was actually me above instead of Dad........
I can't think when I've heard more exciting news than Elizabeth and John moving to State College!!!!
Well, actually Liam and Katie ordered fertile eggs from a guy near State College who supplies fertile eggs and chicks for school classroom projects, etc. Fortunately, we have a VERY motherly hen who has been trying to sit on all the non-fertile eggs that the hens have been laying. Needless to say, she's been in high heaven since the chicks were born.
In answer to Elizabeth's question, you can eat fertile eggs if you harvest them within a day or two. It takes three weeks of constant heat to produce a chick, so even when we had a rooster, we would eat the eggs that the hens laid because we'd snag them within a few hours.
Bon appetite, eh?
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