Hatching our winter meat! / myLot

Kirkwall, Scotland

May 11, 2018 3:09am CST

Our fertile eggs arrived yesterday, so today - we will be putting 28 chicken eggs into the incubator! Ohh the joy of watching these eggs sit in the incubator for a full month, outwardly doing nothing, then cracking open with a perfectly formed, miniature dinner! We will then have to wait a few more months as they grow before culling, plucking and preparing them and putting them in the freezer to feed us through over winter. We will probably have a second run of incubating eggs when these have hatched, can't have too much delicious home grown, organic and free range chicken!

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471294)

• Switzerland

11 May 18

I would not be capable of killing animals that I grow. My grandparents had a pretty large farm, I did not want to watch when they killed, chickens, pigs, rabbits or other animals.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471294)

• Switzerland

11 May 18

@destry I know, some people do, I cannot.

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@destry (2572)

• Kirkwall, Scotland

11 May 18

@Knypse leaves that side of things to me - I don't mind doing it as it bring food to the table, and we know that the animals all had a happy, good life :)

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AKRao24

@AKRao24 (27424)

• India

11 May 18

Wow! nice to know about your hatching the chickens for the delicious, home grown, organic and free range poultry meat. How come you are having an incubator at your place? I am just curious! Do you have hatchery? Thanks !

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@destry (2572)

• Kirkwall, Scotland

11 May 18

We do have an incubator indeed - it can hold 28 chicken eggs, and 60 quail eggs.. We hatched some quail earlier this year :)

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AKRao24

@AKRao24 (27424)

• India

11 May 18

@destry , Ok, I understood now! Does it turn the eggs from time to time and maintains the humidity? Thanks!