No Chicks Hatched!

Well, hatch day was suppose to be yesterday.  I have no chicks running around, no happy peeps...no sounds from any eggs or pips seen.  I have consulted with members of Backyard Chickens, they told me to give them additional time...don't give up yet.  I had already ordered some chicks though.  I may have more chickens than what I know what to do with by the end of the month.  But, I ordered some of the same kind I was trying to hatch, Easter Eggers and Silver Laced Wyandottes...and additional Buff Orpingtons...and Blue Andalusians.  They call it chicken math, it is kind of like Lays Potato chips..you can't stop at just one!  Oh, I ordered a Dominique Rooster and roosters of those kinds too!  

I picked up cement and posts and some of the floor joists for my new coop, but it has rained a lot since I got them, so no work done on it yet.  It will be tall enough for me to walk in, crawling around in a chicken coop or run trying to make repairs, fetch eggs, or clean is no fun!  I am going to make an attached covered run too, so the chickens can be out even when it rains.  I hope to have windows for ventilation and a solar attic fan to help with cooling.  Maybe a skylight, so I can see in the building.  I ordered a six bin nest box, but I may need more, it is suppose to be good for 24 hens to lay.  I have 7 hens now, 14 chicks that I don't know the sex of and will have 15 more hens coming with my order of eggs.  I can make a few more I suppose.  Oh yeah, and even if I don't think any of the eggs in my incubator are going to hatch, if they do...there is the slight possibility of about 15 more.

I am looking forward to getting more eggs, I am hoping the Easter Eggers will lay different colors.  I already have a Rooster for the Easter Eggers and a Rooster for Rhode Island Reds, of which I have at least two of now, along with 2 chicks that could be hens.  With the addition of the Dominique Rooster, I should be able to breed chickens and keep them pure.  The chicks I have now are Rhode Island Red and Dominique's mostly...not pure bred, but they may be meaty egg layers...lol.  I will probably get mostly brown eggs.

On another note, the wild blackberries are getting ripe now and I have collected about 6 1/2 pints in the past few days.  I am putting them in the freezer for now, but blackberry cobbler may be just around the corner!