Candling

So we candled some of the eggs last night, we were excited to see, well, if we could see anything.  And on a few eggs we could see vein development!

I am going to attempt to take photos and if they turn out I will post them. 

Still a long way to go before baby chicks and so many things can go wrong between now and then.  In addition to us not knowing exactly how efficient Little Roo is, we also have the fact that our girls are still young (under a year). 

A friend of Vic's wants to trade some of his eggs for some of our green eggs that he can incubate.  This will give us a chance to bring in some new blood.  He has totally free range chickens at his place south of town.  They just wander around and from what I understand his girls raise their own young and he has not had to do much over the last few years except collect the eggs.  Shane estimates he has around 40 chickens running all over.

On a sad note, Shane decided he just can not continue to butcher the baby bunnies.  We put an ad up on craigslist and have someone coming at 10 today to get all the rabbits, including the triplets.  I had wanted to keep the triplets (the breeding trio) so just in case times got bad we could attempt to raise them for meat again.  But deep down inside Shane is a big softy.  Even Vic said he can't butcher them either and the cost to hire someone would make for very expensive meat.  So we will focus on our chicken and turkey girls.  Once we are done with these eggs in the incubator we are still talking about getting some quail eggs and giving them another try. 

We also hope that we can incubate some baby turkeys once our girls start to lay their eggs.  At this point the turkeys are just freeloaders like the rabbits.  If we are successful with turkeys then instead of having turkey only once a year we will be having it once a month!  Yum, that is my favorite meal!!!!