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  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 21

    Today is the Day!!! They are hatching!!!
  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 19 & 20

    Welcome Back Goat Life Farmer's! The Chicks are starting to Pipp! We shall meet them soon.. So Eggciting!!   The final stages - pipping to hatchi...
  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 18

    Getting ready for our chick's arrival!! Today we are preparing their cage, We will walk you through what they need. We are Eggcited for this!!!
  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 17

    What is an Egg tooth?
  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 16

    Today is an Eggciting Day! We switched out the grate in the incubator to the hatching grate! 
  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 15

    Today is a fun and Eggciting eggsperiment! This is called inside the Egg! we take a look at the parts of an egg, its pretty fun to get messy and check out the Egg..
  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 13 & 14

    We candled both incubators! The chicks are getting big! they all look good! and will hatch in 7 short days! We should see some pipping by Thursday! Check out our video to see the chickens in the egg!
  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 12

    Today, I want to discuss why chickens sleep on a roosting bar at night? What is a roosting bar? We will take you on a video tour of the coop to discuss the roosting habits of chickens. 
  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 11

    Today let's talk about Pecking order! 

    This is a real thing amongst chickens, especially when you introduce new chickens to the flock. Our roosters rule the roost but after them are some pretty bossy hens. I will show you on our video that we have a special enclosure Joe built so we can have the chicks in their just divided by the fencing and they get used to each other much better.

  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 10

    Today I want to discuss Bloom, we touched on this in the egg production on day 8. In step 5 on how an egg is made they talked about the protective coating called bloom. I wanted to share more about this because it is important for us farmer's because we don't always collect eggs each day or can we keep up with eating them as quick as they lay them!
  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 9

    Today let's do a craft!!! Maybe some parents like wine and have been saving the corks since we have so much free time :) I found this fun craft on pintrest!

    Such a darling little Easter and spring craft! Be sure to check out more of our Easter ideas at Our Kid Things!

  • 21-day Eggciting Adventure: Day 8

    Today we are sharing some information for how an egg is formed in a hen and a great video of a hen laying an egg in our coup.