Peep Peep Peep!

The twenty-eight days of turning eggs, regulating temperatures, and burning my fingers during power outages seems to have finally paid off! I made a little investment into an incubator. My Pekin hens have been laying eggs everyday -- and we can only eat so many of them! The intention was to incubate them.

On day one two of my eggs hatched out, day two one more hatched out. The tired little embryos took a break on day three and three more hatched out on day four. Only one duckling died during hatching, one egg died during incubation and the last one has pipped and should pop out by morning. If all goes well for the last egg we will have had a 99.9% fertility rate and a 99% hatch rate!

The Pekins here are odd Pekins! They are setters and exceptional layers! The fact that they set on there eggs amaze many, I guess they don't have a very good rep of setting on there eggs! I have a good line of the ducks going too bad a recent suggestion by my parents was to get rid of them!! I was told it would leave more room for them the dairy goat hobby to grow.... We will see what will happen as far as that goes! The manager of the local TSC (also a friend) had offered to take them for me. She has a flock of Khaki Campbells, Mallards, and Runners -- and not Pekins. She also has draft horses and bantam chickens.

Our eggs are sometimes available on eBay as mountainpridefarm and on Ovabid as mountain-pride. They usually sell for $10.00 a dozen. My hens are setting right now so no more will be available until the end of the season.

~Paul