Favorite Things: Hatchlings

For the past few weeks there has been a strange contraption continuously buzzing and sporadically glowing in our mudroom. It is an incubator fashioned from a styrofoam cooler, with holes punch in its sides for ventilation and an incandescent light bulb inside to generate heat. The incubator contained about two dozen chicken eggs. Today the first two chicks hatched.

First Chick

Second Chick Hatching

We spent much of the day checking in on the first chick and waiting for the second chick to emerge. I’m not sure who was more excited, Marshall or my husband. Everything is new and exciting when you’re a child. But my husband is the one who built the incubator, who made sure the temperature and humidity levels were right, and who rotated the eggs diligently several times each day. He is the mother hen and these chicks are his babies.

There are cracks and tiny holes in more of the eggs. That means tomorrow there will be more chicks! We’re going to have so much fun watching them hatch and welcoming them into the world, admiring their fluffy feathers and listening to their adorable peep-peep-peeping. And that’s why hatchlings are My Favorite Things.

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