Not much is happening in our soggy flowerbeds, but there’s a lot of excitement happening in the new incubator.
CANDLING THE EGGS
Candling dark eggs can be difficult, but we could see the veins & chick fairly clearly in these white eggs.
![2012 Hatch1 candle](http://www.ridgetopfarmandgarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2012-Hatch1-candle.jpg)
HATCHING!
It takes chickens only 21 days to hatch. Yesterday was day 21! So far 11 eggs have hatched.
It really is an amazing thing to watch & of course I took tons of pics and video. I even resisted opening the incubator. I only took pics through the windows in the incubator. Here are just a few:
![2012 Hatch1 kids](http://www.ridgetopfarmandgarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2012-Hatch1-kids.jpg)
CHICKS
This batch of chicks are Easter Eggers & Easter Egger/White Leghorn crosses.