We are on vacation - and while I'm loving the beach and being with my children and grandchildren, I still keep thinking of my chickens. In our part of Tennessee, the temperature has been over 100 for much of the past two weeks.
Poor Blackie, our 15-month Jersey Giant started sitting on 8 Swedish Flower Hen eggs almost three weeks ago. She's in the broody pen in our coop, and I worry about how stuffy it is in there for her. I miscounted the days - and I put the eggs under her a day earlier than I should have. With this heat, the eggs will likely hatch early. So, instead of having the eggs hatch on Sunday as I'd hoped, almost certainly the chicks will start hatching tomorrow - and I won't be home until Saturday.
I'm just hoping everything goes well - that the coop isn't too hot and stuffy for the baby chicks. And, since the pop doors to the coop have remained open all week, I'm hoping that the run has continued to be secure and that chickens have been safe, cool and happy for the week that I've been gone.
We have had a trusted friend take care of our animals while we've been gone. But he will only go by once each day.
I'm really anxious to get home on Saturday and see that everything survived okay for a week with me.
A Middle Tennessee farm dedicated to living closer to nature and becoming more self-sustaining
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