Eggs!

I just picked up our eggs from Town Line Poultry Farm in Zeeland! They are a hatching farm for farm stores and home poultry enthusiasts!

We will be hatching Araucana chickens (hopefully). Town Line describes them as: 

They are called the Easter egg fowl because they lay colored eggs:

blue, green, pink, and olive drab.Birds vary in size and color, some with

 whiskers and others with muffs of feathers covering ears.
 

They should be interesting!!  Hopefully we will have between 6 and 10 chicks!

Town Line Farm

 

The workers putting the eggs into the incubators.  The incubators are the wood cabinets along the left.

  

Here is the incubator.  It holds 30,000 eggs!  The farmer said that they distribute about 140,000 chicks per week and have about an 80% success rate with their eggs..

 

Eggs ready for the incubator.

  

Boxes of chicks, ducklings, and other poultry ready to be picked up or delivered!!

 

Inside one of the chick boxes.

  

A mixed box...turkeys and ducklings!

  

Our little purchase from Town Line...12 Araucanas eggs, ready for the incubator!!