Day 1

So I woke up to get ready and go to work, I did the normal things like brush my teeth and stuff like that.  I then walk into the other bedroom upstairs where my incubators are at.  I am rotating them in the morning when I wake up and roughly between 6:30 and 7 p.m.,  that will be around 12 hours on each side.  Well I rotated them this morning and then look at the dresser they are sitting on, which happens to be my grandma's old dresser, and it is leaking water.  I then tried to move the incubator but that only made it leak more. So I run and get towels and wiped up all of the water and luckily the bottom of the incubator doesn't get hot so I have towels under it now.  But the temp was at a warm 100 degrees so that was good and there was enough water in there to keep circulating.  I took some pictures with my camera last night but forgot to upload them onto my computer so I will be taking more pictures tonight.  Only 6 more days until we can candle them and see if they have baby chicks in them :)

On a side note here is a picture of Sage that I took with my camera and decided to quickly send a picture to my husband since he was at work.  She was very cuddly and lovey when I got home she just wanted to be taken care of.  So tonight I'm going to let Bailee hang out in the garage for a bit while monster comes inside since she can't be around her for a couple more days.  Lexie and Levi will be in the kennel so she won't be bothered.  I'll see if she can make it up the stairs and into the bed and we can relax.  If not the ottoman in the living room is big enough for us to lay on.  She did drink a little water yesterday but she wouldn't eat so hopefully today she has her appetite back, she is a hound after all.

Here is Sage all cute

Here is Red and blackie, no better names then that lol

Red again

Blackie again

First 17 eggs

Second set of eggs 15 total, this is how they arrived in a box

I rearranged the eggs so the others could fit

The second set of eggs after I had marked them with the date and X's on one side and O's on the other so I know which side to put them on each rotation

All the eggs so far, there are 32 total and they are all the same breed of chicken.

For the next set that will go in the other incubator, they are a mix of all kinds of breeds, we are expecting 22+ eggs so hopefully we get a nice variety.  They are currently in Oklahoma and should be here on the 25th.  I'm going to get the other incubator ready and started on the 24th so its ready.

On something totally unrelated to the animals, I'm starting the couch to 5k tomorrow so wish me luck :)

Introduction

I wanted to start a blog about my life and the things going on it.  First I'm going to give a little background about me and my life.  I just recently married my husband Chris on 9/15/12.  We bought a home together in August of 2011 and have been growing our little farm ever since. We are both 23 years old and graduated in 2007.  We have known each other since we were kids actually.  Throughout our childhood we didn't like each other nor did we even talk when we got into high school.

We are active people who enjoy being outdoors as much as possible.  I had two dogs prior to Chris and I even dating, so I brought them into our family first.  Lexie is a 4 year old Yorkie and Levi is a 4 year old Chihuahua. Then we decided to get a coonhound and 1 turned into 4 rather quickly.  He have Hope who is the oldest, and her daughter Daisy and her daughter Sage, then we have Lily :)  Hope, Daisy and Lily are all Walker coonhounds if you are curious.  Lily is my hound who I have tried to train together with Chris.  He handles Hope and Daisy pretty well on his own.  Hope doesn't need training she is pretty good on her own she just gets a little rusty when she doesn't get hunted for a while.  Sage is out of one of the accidental litters we had so we decided she was a good inside/outside dog. She happens to be a cross of a Walker and and English/redtick. Sage also just got back from being spayed today.  Anyway, last but not least is Bailee.  She is our inside dog who sleeps in bed with us at night and is a spoiled pooch.  She is an English setter mixed with coonhound.  So if you counted that would be 7 dogs, 3 inside at dogs and 3 outside and 1 outside/inside.  We also have 1 fish and an algae eater.

Our newest adventure that we started this weekend was hatching some chicken eggs.  Last summer we had bought a flock from someone and so we had roughly 30 chickens.  We had bought some of our own from TSC when they had their chick days and we had about 4 of them that made it to adulthood.  We also adopted some chickens from my in-laws since they no longer wanted them.  However, we decided to let them free range for a while and that did not end well.  We currently have 2 hens and last weekend we brought home Phoenix, our new rooster.  This weekend we went online and bought some eggs to try and hatch and today we received 18 eggs, even though the post said 8, and only one had cracked so we have a total of 17 eggs to put into the incubator tonight.  They suggest waiting 12 to 24 after they are received to put into the incubator to let them settle down but we are thinking that since they only had to travel a little ways and they weren't in the boxes for very long that we would put them in tonight.  We will know in about seven days if the eggs are fertile, we will hold up a light and see if anything is growing.  Then in about two more weeks we should have little chicks.  We then will proceed to put them into a pen with a heat lamp, food, and water.

Here are some pictures:

Chris and I

Lexie

Levi








Sage








Bailee

Daisy










Hope

Lilly

First batch of eggs - Ameraucanas