Chickens!!

Who knew chickens could be so addictive!! I had never even really seen many chickens or had any experience till I went into a Concord Pet store, and the manager had her Serama chicks in a home made brooder on the counter. She explained that they were the smallest chickens in the world and how they are great pets. Then I started doing some research on the breed and how to care for them and eventually I got an Incubator and some eggs. The first batch didn't hatch, some how even after 22 days, the chick was only about and inch long, I thought it was dead and cracked open the egg only to find out, it was still alive. :'(  So not a great experience, weirdest fluke I have ever heard of. I did more research after that and heard that you could keep eggs in the fridge for a week and still hatch them in an incubator and wondered if the eggs and just layed dormant until at the correct temperature (had problems with the incubator) Don't go by that though, I have no idea if that's true. Second time around I got a new better incubator, and again had trouble finding correct setting in order to keep the temperature at the right level (cause it was new, not cause it was bad) and then the hurricane came in and blew the electricity for hours and hours. I thought for sure none would hatch, but I kept turning the eggs and kept the temp and humidity at the right level, and low and behold when I came home from school there was a little chick hopping around my incubator. But sadly he was the only one. So again more eggs this time silkie eggs, because I loved the mix of the silkie/serama from my first hatch, that was named Ashe once I figured out what sex he was. The third time around electricity went out again (horrible luck) and the temp dropped to 80 degrees. Again was so sure none would hatch, but then I heard peeping and a little tiny miracle lavender silkie hatched. Now I have 4 Seramas, 2 from Tiny Tots, and two from Theron, two beautiful silkies from Tiny Tots, Ashe from my first hatch and my new little lavender from my second and 20 silkie eggs due on the Friday. So excited, but I need to get this coop building on the move, I have a lot of new chickies to house and need a bigger run for them all. But chickens are exactly like potatoe chips, you can never have just one and once you start it's hard to stop.