It's now 40 days since we put the peachick eggs (round 2) under the broody Australorp hen & in the incubator (later to be moved unde

After 60 days and 14 peafowl eggs... will we finally have one hatch? And if none of them hatch, what will we do? Give up, get more next year

This story starts out with a random search through Craigslist that brought me past a post about peacock hatching eggs. And for only $8! If y

We got 19 chicks last week from a Heartland Hatchery chick day's event. 3 died early on, 7 of the chicks (3 turkeys, 4 chicks) went unde

After bringing home baby chicks and turkeys from Heartland Hatchery chick days... we test out our broody hens to see if they'll raise th

We don't NEED more chicks... but when Heartland Hatchery comes to our town, we just have to get some more! We went to the local farm sto

We only hatched out ducklings form our incubator in the past, but this time we let a broody mama do the job... the cool part... she's a

We had a fun surprise out in the coop today! We have 3 different broody hens sitting on small batches of eggs and one of the batches are sta