The chicks we hatched a while ago belonged to friends and have now gone back to them. Beth had also ordered a dozen Orpington eggs, both chocolate and lavender, which arrived from the UK a few weeks ago and have been in the incubator. Every few days the eggs are candled ( a bright torch shone through them in a dark room so you can see what is going on inside the egg ), so you can monitor progress. It is important that any eggs not developing correctly are removed from the incubator as they can go bad and explode thus risking infecting the remaining eggs. Unfortunately at day 8 we noticed blood rings developing on three of the eggs which is indicative of embryo death and by day 14, eight of the twelve eggs needed to be removed as they obviously weren't viable.
Hatching these eggs is Beth's project so she made the final decision about at which point to remove the eggs from the incubator. As the eggs were fertile and had had developing embryos she decided she wanted to bury them in the garden under a tree.














 Beth bought a tree and she and Caitlin dug a hole...

and the eggs were buried...

She also wanted to write a little note to bury with the eggs and asked the others to do the same.

Another tree in the garden, more memories.