First eggs in the incubator

21 days.  In 21 days we will hopefully have a few chicks emerge from their shells and grace us with their little peeps.  Our first adventure in incubating and hatching our own eggs begins with our spiffy new incubator.

We’ve been through the instructions (multiple times) that came with the incubator and set the temperature, the humidity level, and the rotation.  And now, tonight, we have our first 7 precious eggs warming up.  Of course I’m nervous.  The books say that a lot can happen to cause an unsuccessful hatch, things within our control as well as things out of our control.  Eventually we’d like to have one of the chickens go “broody” and want to incubate and hatch eggs for us, but until we are at that point, our little incubator will hopefully do a great job of turning and warming the eggs while the chicks develop!