Today we sold Tesla. Someone contacted me yesterday and said she had two alpacas, both older, and had lost one suddenly. The one left behind was inconsolable and she needed a companion quickly. She has two younger girls (maybe 10 and 6), and they liked him immediately. I did give her the information she would need to register him, if she decides to do that.
Yesterday we picked up a new puppy. She's another Border collie, and her name is Quinn. She's 9 weeks old today and was born on 9/9/10.
We have also finished hatching. Out of the 15 eggs in the styrofoam incubator, we hatched out two, and only one of those survived. We had two batches in the wood hatcher. One batch of 15 eggs yielded 9 chicks - our best percentage. The other batch of eggs - 10 - gave us two hatchlings. All of the chicks from the wood hatcher survived, leaving us with a total of 12 new chicks. I think the last batch had a lower hatch rate because at that point the temperatures were (and still are) getting colder, and the eggs may have been chilled after they were laid and before I got them into the hatcher. Regardless, today I moved the chicks from the brooder cage to the stall in the back of the barn. Not only were they starting to get a little tall for the brooder cage, but they were going through food and water too fast for the small feeders that fit in the brooder cage. In the stall, they have their red light in one corner, and the large-size (about gallon-size) food and water containers. We're going to need a second bag of chick starter very soon!
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