It's Almost Time!

Last weekend I went out and purchased the incubator and automatic turning tray from Tractor Supply.  While we were there, I checked out the baby chicks they had for sale and they were so cute!

Then on Monday, I drove the 35 minutes out to Mount Healthy Hatchery to pick up my 2 dozen eggs!  I didn't plan to get them so far in advance, but when I called to order them they said the only time I could pick them up was on Mondays before 11am.  And since this past week was our spring break, I had already decided to take Monday off work, so this was how I spent my Monday morning!

Luckily, I realized when I got home that I had two empty egg cartons that I had saved for some kind of project last year, so I was able to transfer the eggs to cartons that close.  The lady at the hatchery told me the eggs would be ok at room temperature until I was ready to put them in the incubator, so my fingers are crossed that I didn't get them too soon!  And so for the last week they have been hanging out on the kitchen counter...

So tomorrow I'm going to go to work and get the incubator all set up.  Then on Monday, I'll introduce the project to the kids and then the eggs will go into the incubator on Tuesday.  I was originally planning to put them in on Monday, but that would put our hatch day on a Sunday.  I would much rather have the hatching happen during the week when we are there, so Tuesday is the day!  More pictures to come after I have everything all set up.

~Ms. Julie