Incubating eggs - Part 1 #hatchingchicks #incubatingeggs #permaculture

Hi, that was such a nice cock-a-doodle-doo. I'm getting food for the girls. Jupiter is a great rooster because he isn't, uh, let's just say he's aggressive enough. I think we're gonna have some baby chickens soon. Yes, yes we are. Oh, sweet. Happy Valentine's Day, everybody. All right guys, I'm super excited to fill up my incubator. Um, so I basically have seven brown eggs and five white eggs. Um, the brown eggs are most likely fertilized because my rooster really likes the black hens better. Um, just TMI. Um, so I filled it up. I will let them chill or warm here for the next 18 days. And this is, uh, Celsius degrees, but it's about 90. I'll have to check and put the translation on the screen. Um, but this controls the temperature. Um, and I've had them about 35, uh, degrees Celsius, which keeps them nice and toasty warm for the next 18 days. So, um, follow along on my Instagram feed for more up to, up to date, um, information, but I will add videos here as I can. That's actually what happens when I have the cover open too long. It drops in temperature and the alarm goes off. So this seems pretty awesome. Um, I will also say, it's got this little mechanism here. It's hard to see. I don't want to, it's basically a purely mechanical operation. That little, it's got a little circle disc on it with this tiny little, um, yeah, I tried to, I think I might have a video of it in motion, but this little circle has a little prong on it and every two hours it rotates, which slides this tray from this location back over about an inch to that location. So they're really just like rolling back and forth so that the, um, little embryo thing doesn't stick to the eggshell. Hi guys. Good morning. So I am checking my eggs for viability and I'm so excited. I, I have fertilized eggs. That sounds really funny out of context, but I'm incubating eggs and I'm going to show you a couple of them while I check them because I've got four already that I checked and it looks like they all have, um, a baby chick growing in them. So let's check it out. All right. So I have a light here that shines up from the bottom. I'm going to grab another egg. I'm going to put it on here. See if you can see this. There we go. All right. Wait till your eyes adjust. Can you see that? See how half of it's shaded and you can even see some veins in there. Guys, that means there's a baby in there. How freaking exciting is this? Oh my God. Put that baby back in a warmer. Let that baby cook. Okay. Cook is not the right word. All right. Next one. You know what y'all? This does not look fertilized. I think I'm going to take that one out before I waste my time and energy. All right. Got one down. Six to go. Yep. That baby's in there. That baby's in there. So I came back down to add more water to the incubator and, um, I ended up taking two eggs out that were not fertilized. And actually I cracked one of them and realized it probably was fertilized. Um, there's actually, there was like six eggs that I added the second day. So they're about a day behind in the process. So I'm really sad, but I sacrificed, I think, a baby chicken. See that little tiny white dot. So that was my bad. Sorry little guy or girl. Maybe next time around the sun. Anyway, I have five white eggs, five brown eggs. No, I have seven brown eggs and three white eggs still in the incubator. And, um, they have like two more full weeks to grow. So I'll, um, post an update video as it gets closer to baby chick time. So thank you so much for joining me. Subscribe to my channel. If you, um, want more videos like this. And, uh, I also talk about self-sufficiency and, um, whatever I feel like really. So have a great day and I'll see you on the next video. Bye for now.