Beginings

  Greetings fellow chicken lovers!  This is my first post so it may not be very good, so please forgive me.  This is the first real blog I've done so like with the chickens, I am learning as I go.  ;)
  Our life with chickens so far:
A good friend in our homeschool group who also owns chickens was exceptionally kind and is letting us borrow her 20 year old homemade incubator and provided us with eggs.  She raises Buff Orpington (No relation to Biff from the Back to the Future trilogy.  Sorry!) chickens and provided us with 24 eggs.  We started incubating them and tragity struck...  The fan in the incubator stopped working and the temperature went up to 120 degrees!!  Needless to say, the 24 eggs were cooked.  We then returned the incubator and the eggs to our friend and about 4 days later it was returned, with 22 new eggs.  Come to find out she had accidentally plugged it in wrong and the high heat caused some of the hot glue in it to melt and stick in the fan.
  So now we are on day 9 with the new batch of eggs.  Things are going well!  The fan hasn't died, the heat stays on the right temperature (more on that later), and after candling (more on that later too) them all but one are alive as of now.

  That is what has happened so far.  I will do a post about what you need to do to start off next!!
  Until then,
Emma