Day 18 - getting pretty anxious/excited

[Happy]

I'm still hoping. Jaye have you seen the water candling method? Maybe you could try that first before putting holes in them.

[XBRIT]

Still nothing this morning. :-( Tonight I will look for movement. Not sure where to make a small hole if I do find life though: At the top of the big end of the egg, or just above where the air sac starts on the side?
If there's no sign of life in any of them, does anyone in the Ottawa area know of anyone that may have a couple of day-old chicks that I can buy to tuck under Gracie? She's been setting long enough, so I don't want to start over with more hatching eggs. I will need to to snap out of being broody, so I figure at this point the only way that will happen easily is if she has chicks to raise. We had a big wood chipper going for hours on Friday evening and most of the day Saturday and that didn't snap her out of it, so I think it will be a challenge to break her broodiness if it comes to that. I don't have bagpipes either.

I heard just above the air sack but I do it at the top, if the chick has broken through into the air sack you can easily injure it.

[Killerbunny]

jaye - you could try your local feed store. Some get chicks on Wednesdays.

[XBRIT]

I checked out kijiji Ottawa and there are chicks available.

[Jaye]

Thanks, XBRIT. I will follow up.
All her eggs are dead, as far as I can tell.

[Happy]

sorry Jaye and Gracie.

[Jaye]

Thanks, Happy. Feeling pretty low atm. It will be better for both of us tomorrow if one of the Kijiji ads pan out.

[XBRIT]

Sorry Jaye but to take your mind off things, not sure distance from you is Jasper but Banti chick sale $3.00 each, here is the link:

http://www.kijiji.ca/v-livestock/brockv ... nFlag=true

[Killerbunny]

Sorry to hear that Jaye.

[kenya]

Ahhh too bad, sorry to hear.