Eps32
Songster
So I have a broody orust hen who's been sitting on eggs for almost three weeks. The other hens lay in the corner of the coop on a nice bed of straw. I each mourning collect the eggs that's the broody hen is not sitting on to put in an egg carton to hatch or sell or even eat. Well three days ago I collect my mourning orust eggs and put them in a carton on my kitchen counter there was maybe four. Well the next day I said I have two dozen orust eggs and a mix of another 20 eggs from my outside free range flock. I decide I'll do a hatch. I set up my incubator wait about 18 hours and drop the eggs on the turner. Now remember these orust eggs I collected three days ago have been sitting on my counter for 24+ hours. I drop them all and fill up the bator. Two days later I'm laying in bed I here a squeak I thought it was my egg turner just making a squeak while turning. I goto sleep wake up make coffee sit on my bed and start reading news etc.. Now while drinking my coffee I hear chirps I'm like my egg turner is going bad. I get up look in the bator and there it is a healthy orust chick hatched and drying while the egg turner was still going. I immediately set up my brooder and took her/him out so it's feet didn't get caught in the egg turner. Now there's a healthy chick named destiny in my brooder under a heat lamp. Thought this was a crazy story seeing his/her egg was sitting on my kitchen counter for over a day. I don't know how the egg got moved from my broody hen but it did some hoe some way this chick was definitely stepping foot on earth. Thanks for reading
