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Our egg hatching mission: let’s get down to business
by Patrick Vogt
Watch live as our home-bred chicks hatch
25.6.2023
Translation: Katherine Martin
We’ve reached the final stage of our at-home chick-breeding experiment. The chicks could hatch any day now. If you don’t want to miss the miracle of birth, you’d best follow our livestream here.
For the past few weeks, other online portals have had their cameras fixed on a mountainside. All so they don’t miss (in the worst case scenario) a small Graubünden village being buried by a rock slide. Sure, we could do it too, but we’d prefer to take a constructive approach.
«Life finds a way,» as Jeff Goldblum said in Jurassic Park. That’s why you’ll be able to watch the final days of our hatching experiment at home with us – and be there live when the chicks hatch.
Update Thursday, 29 June
Since Sunday, 25 June, people have been watching our chicks hatching via a livestream. That’s now come to an end. As of today, eleven chicks have hatched – and they’re full of beans. At least one more seems to be in the process of hatching, so we’ll certainly keep the incubator running. Want to know exactly how many chicks will hatch in the end, how the brood is doing and what will happen to them next? Then follow me as an author right now. You'll get another chick update in the next few days.
What’s happened so far
On Tuesday, 6 June, we turned on our dining room incubator and put two dozen chicken eggs inside. Since then, we’ve been loving and caring for them to the best of our ability. It remains to be seen how well we’ve done, if we’ve done well at all. Chicks usually hatch between the 19th and 21st day of incubation. It’s showtime.
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I'm a full-blooded dad and husband, part-time nerd and chicken farmer, cat tamer and animal lover. I would like to know everything and yet I know nothing. I know even less, but I learn something new every day. What I am good at is dealing with words, spoken and written. And I get to prove that here.
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