Day 12

Looking good eh?
Kat and I got to putting together another incubator box tonight. I think it's gonna last longer than the first box did. Take a look.


G'night Franklin, hope ya like your new digs.

Day 11

So tired I am... I've been soo stressed out this last week that my neck won't turn without causing severe pain... fun... Well anyway, Franklin is growing right on schedule. My mother's 25 anniversary of turning 30 was today, so Happy Birthday to her. :-)
Katrina and I still haven't changed Franklin's box but we will really soon. We found a small box that will work so all we have to do now is put it together.


I know in this picture the bold 'F' on it's side looks strange but that is just the side of the shell that was facing up when we took the picture. When we found franklin we wrote an 'F' on the top of the egg so we would know where the top was. But look how big Franklin is getting!!!
Sleep Tight Franklin!

Day 10

Houston, we have double digits!! We've made it to day 10!! yay! Today is the day before my mothers birthday, today we watched the series finale of LOST, and today I was sick. katrina and i still haven't made another cardboard box to put Franklin in. We'll hopefully get to that tomorrow. Well anyway, here is our newest updated picture. Lets see how our fine pre-feathered friend is doing.

Looking good Franklin!! Goodnight!

Day 9

So far so good. I think the cardboard box we have Franklin in isn't gonna take much more humidity. We're gonna need to make another one pretty soon. Franklin has developed a lot today. I think he has an eye or something new. There is a dark spot in the darker middle area. See?


:-)

Goodnight Franklin!

Day 8

OK wow, Franklin is improving really quickly. :-) I'm happy. Nothing really happened today. I fell asleep in the late afternoon and didn't wake up till just now. (5:30 am) When i woke up I realized that I had forgotten to update this site. Katrina didn't do it either so here I am. I just can't believe how fast Franklin is growing. I think he doubled in size from yesterday already.
well I'm going back to sleep now.
Good Night Franklin.. again..

Day 7

Day 7 is finally here!!! So i found out that my worries of yesterday have turned into joy. Those red circles in the egg weren't blood rings, just the veining process. which is the next step in development. here is a picture of what we found tonight.

isn't that neat?!? I guess the edited picture from day 5 was just neat looking and wasn't actually showing me what was inside. oh well, this is what it should be looking like anyway. in this next picture you can see him better.

This is cool! I'm sooo happy that we've gotten this far. but now I have to study for a music theory test i have in the morning.
Good night Franklin, may you get more rest than I will tonight.

Day 6

I know that day 7 is a big milestone on if Franklin will survive. Tonight has got me really worried though. The humidity has been slowly going down so we re hydrated the wash cloths and put them back in the incubator. I knew we had to change them sooner or later so now i know that it has to be every 4 days. I just hope that the levels of humidity haven't put Franklin in jeopardy. Tonight when candling the egg i found something new. I don't know much about what the egg is supposed to look like during the stages of development so I don't know if this is something I should be worried about. what do you think?


Do you see the red rings in the middle of the egg? Are those supposed to be there? I've read up on something that can occur called "blood rings" but they look different than this. I guess I'm gonna wait and see how things turn out but i have to say that i'm kind of worried about this. Please let me know what you think.
hope you're doing alright Franklin, good night.

Annie



(*UPDATE*: I was told by the awesome people at the back yard chickens forum that this is 'veining'. this is what is supposed to happen, so i'm not so worried anymore. got to go to school now.
ttyl)