Third day 60 hours – beginning of nose 62 hours – beginning of legs 64 hours – beginning of wings Fourth day – beginning of tongue Below is a chart that you can check out. I find it to be an interesting view inside the egg ChartRead more
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Day 1 and 2 of Operation H.A.T.C.H
Hatching Awesome Tiny Chickens Here So, yesterday the eggs arrived all were given a number and placed on top of a turner inside the incubator. The incubator is set at a constant 99.5 degrees at a 50% humidity rate. The turner rotates the eggs throughout the day so they do not settle on one side. If the eggs are not turned they will not hatch and if it stops turning the chicks will develop on one side and don’t growRead more
We’re so eggcited!
Photo The farmyard will soon be getting some new additions. If you couldn’t tell from the title, we have decided that we are going to incubate, hatch and raise our own chickens. I will be blogging about the whole process when we start which will be on April 4th. They will be placed into our incubator which will be set up in the vet room. They should hatch about 21 days later and wont be able to be viewed byRead more
Meet Galileo Opossum
Here is a picture of Galileo opossum. You can see he has a keen eye for design by picking out paint swatches when he visited some museum employees. He arrived with his brother, Einstein in September of 2011. He and his brother came to us from a rehabber that found them after their mother was killed by a car. They were too used to people and too young to be released. The two later were put into Sonny’s old exhibitRead more
Friday’s Forecast-Sonny outside
The other Friday, I hear a radio call for me to come up to the farmyard. I walk up and see a huge opossum sniffing around in the pine straw. I thought to myself….”gees, that’s a huge opossum and why is it out in the daytime? and why are Aaron and Katy so close to it?” Turns out it was our opossum Sonny, out for a walk. Lightning thought it was VERY interesting and was looking at him the wholeRead more
Groundhog Day 2012
Happy Groundhog Day! Last year you may have remembered that our Groundhog/Woodchuck Henry, had an interview and predicted the Super Bowl winner last year. This year Henry is in hibernation mode but still gets up every once in a while to eat a peanut or banana. Last year I took this video and in honor of Groundhog Day I thought I would post it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMQnsyUNJ20&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] Read more