Accidental Homesteader

Hatch day is here! We started the day great! With two of the unsure ones pippin and zippin.

But, thus far, all we have are those two. We will keep them going through the weekend.

There’s a concept in hobby farming called “Chicken Math.” I have fallen prey to this concept.

It started out so simple…

My insomnia is resolving itself into the medieval practice of two sleeps. I sleep for a couple of hours, wake up and am productive for an hour or two, then I sleep the rest of the night.

My Fitbit watch sleep sensor is flummoxed.

In any case, the best thing to do at two in the morning is to candle eggs!

We did our second candling of our eggs.

So our incubator went kaput last spring mid-hatch. We bought a new one with Christmas money. Last Friday I broke it out for a new generation.

I started my eggs on Friday night, and had insomnia on… well… every night since, but that’s unrelated. In any case, I was up and bored at 2 am last night, so I did my first candling of the season. It was actually pretty cool!