This Place Looks Kinda Familiar and Hatching Chicken Eggs

Oh wait...
Is this our blog?
I thought it looked kind of familiar.
Has is really been almost 2 weeks since I've written anything?

Because I know it really has been almost 2 weeks of vomiting, high fevers, chest x-rays, pneumonia, meds, laundry piles, broken computers, lysol fumes and hatching chickens.

But let's talk about the hatching chickens.
Because that's the fun part.

Now, some of you know that
we've hatched ducks before.
Yep.
We're pretty much farmers.
And watching the ducks hatch was honestly one of my all-time favorite-life-experiences.
Which maybe shows just
how much we're not farmers....
Or that I need more life experiences.
But it was pretty incredible.
Amazing, really.

And this year we decided we wanted to hatch chickens...

Because we think it'll be nice to have fresh eggs and because it kinda makes us feel like we're--
Farmer-ish. 
So exactly 22 days ago, the eggs arrived from eBay.
Yes.
I won eggs on ebay and they were shipped to me in bubble wrap and I pulled out our old incubator and stuck them in.
And I know it's supposed to work...
The whole chicken growing inside the egg and all.
But seriously--
It's amazing.

Add a little warmth, a little humidity, and 21 days of time and...
They hatched !!!

We didn't have near the drama that we did during the ducks' hatch.
But I owe a huge thank you to the many friends who stopped by to check on the temperature and humidity levels while we were up in Seattle last weekend.

And I owe actual chickens to my friend Jill who drove over and picked them up during a power outage and took the incubator to her mom's house so that the eggs would stay warm.

We did have one little guy who required a bit of assistance.
Four had hatched and he was struggling for quite a while to get out.
Our son noticed that he was blowing bubbles out of the side of his mouth and I quickly googled
hatching chick blowing bubbles out of beak

I followed the instructions for helping him "unzip" his egg and then put warm, wet cheesecloth over the exposed membrane...
(I know--membrane--it just is kind of a creepy word).
But, after making sure he didn't dry out and get stuck, he did eventually hatch and initally he was very weak, but over the next few hours, he perked right up and now he is a fully functioning member of our
flock. 

And after all that-- 
Think she.
I keep saying--
he,
But we want them to be girls.
We're still not allowed to keep roosters within the city limits.
And because we all know how Lydi feels about roosters.

So--
All that to say...
I think I'm (we're) back (Lord willing).
And I'm thankful for our new baby chicks!

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