Killerbunny wrote: ↑Thu May 24, 2018 8:47 pm
Those are adorable! Great hatch BTW.
It surprised me, how well the hatch went... I only lost two eggs I set, at day 5 candling, one dud (which doesn't really count) and one blood ring. No swollen feet or bad tendons or yolk sacs or weak poults. I may be a forced air convert! One of the last ones out had a VERY close call at hatching though...he had unzipped halfway and stopped, and when I looked at the egg, it was dead still. I took it out and pulled the top off, and he had shoved his head down to his legs and suffocated. I pulled him out and was sure he was dead. Gave him a poke and he moved a little, gave him a couple more pokes and he gasped. I had to leave, so put his limp body back in figuring the others walking all over him might encourage him a little, and that he'd either sink or swim. When I came back in an hour or so, I could NOT tell him from the other fresh hatches, all were on their feet. I wish I'd marked him!
And, I miscounted somehow. Not once, but multiple times. There are ten babies
Pet quality wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas, welsummers, barred rocks, light brown leghorns; Projects on the go: rhodebars, welbars
I am NEVER anything but angelic 
