New life is abounding everywhere. We are enjoying spring, everything is turning green, all the animals seem to be giving birth. New goats, New kittens, New bunny, and even new chicks. But the chicks have needed a little Dr. Ford OB/Gyn intervention!!
How lucky our chickens are to have an OB/Gyn as their owner!! You see, our chickens were not being very broudy, (for all you non-farming people, that means they didn't want to sit on their eggs, thus, no hatching), so we, or rather Dr. Ford, had to intervene. This is what he does for a living, saves lives of unborn babies, and does all he can to help get them into this world, healthy and strong.
So, Ray headed to Tractor supply to purchase an incubator. Again, Ray, being taken aback, by the price of the durn thing, turned on his heels, and headed to google, to see if he could figure out how to make his own. And low and behold, wouldn't you know it, we had everything we needed right in our own home, to make our own incubator!!!
Ray, wanting to make this a family affair, gathered all the kids together on a Saturday morning, and we built our very own incubator to hatch our own eggs. How exciting!! We used an old white styrofoam ice chest, a light bulb and socket, some old chicken wire, straw, a bowl of water, and a thermometer, that measured temp and humidty.
We began the next day, collecting eggs, marking them with their dates, then carefully placing them in our homemade incubator. Much to my dismay, the only place in our home, that we were able to acheive the perfect humidity for them, was OUR bathroom, so for the next 3 weeks, we had this glow, every day and night, coming from our bathroom, from the incubator.
As we got closer to the due date of the eggs hatching, excitement was rising in the household. At last, the first egg cracked!! Amazing!! Did you know, that even before the first crack happens, you can hear cheeping coming from inside the egg?! I do know, because we heard it in the middle of the night, coming from our bathroom!!
The next morning, the whole family could hardly leave our bathroom, as we hovered over the incubator, watching the first signs of life emerging from the oval eggs. It is a miracle, whether human, as my husband gets to experience on a daily basis, or animal, as this was. Every birth is a miracle!!
What a beautiful picture of new life. Christ gives us new life, through the cross. I love spring, especially being married to Ray Ford, who seems to bring it, not only right up to my doorstep, but into my bathroom!!!
Happy Spring,
JJ
