About 10 years ago a very dear family friend made a move to
Colorado from Texas. They had laying chickens and
couldn’t take them so she offered them up to me and thus began my love of
having fresh eggs. I am not really sure
what kind they were but those girls produced brown eggs and light green
eggs. Recently, my girls produced until
they passed of old age.
I needed some new girls so we went to the feed store and
they were out. After some thought, we decided
we would “grow our own”. We bought an
incubator and I asked Debby Looney if she could find me some fresh eggs to put
in my incubator. She and her daughter-in-love had been hatching chickies so they gave me Easter Leggers (green eggs)
and Plymouth Rock or Barrd Rock chickens.
Within 21 to 24 days 8 have hatched. I don’t think my other 3 are going to make
it. We have set up a horse trough with
shavings and a heat lamp with water and feed and they are just chirping around.
They are so cute! When they get a little
bigger we will take them to the hen house and I will have fresh eggs for baking
and to give away to my friends!
If you want fresh eggs…..
- 1. Find a friend that will give you some eggs
- 2. Buy your incubator
- 3. Find a place to put it so that it has circulation and easy to get to so that you can tend to it easily
- 4. Get your fresh eggs. They have to go into the incubator within 24 to 48 hours