Great job Serina, and thank you for starting this thread. It was great to follow everyone's progress.
We have 22/24 chicken eggs hatched. ( 1 not fertile, removed after first candling, 1 egg found with an horizontal crack on day of lockdown, I left it hoping it was the shell only, but it has not hatched. There was no air sack and I opened it to find a early death, probably 5-7 days.
The last egg to hatch was at 2pm today. One of the last chicks that I moved to the brooder has a mild cross beak, off by less than a sixteenth of an inch, and also has one toe with a slight curl on the right foot. We will have to watch that one very carefully.
Six chicks that hatched yesterday were moved out to our broody hen. She now has 16 chicks hatched over 5 days. She is also still sitting 5 eggs.
We have 1 turkey egg in the bator, due next Sunday. We should have a few day to clear out the remains of the hatch before turkey egg lockdown.
There are 5 additional eggs that were laid in the broody boxes that the hens covered for ?? days before we found them, so they are also in the bator, due at a later date.
I'm amazed how fast they learn and how interested they are to investigate their world. It is fun to watch 1 & 2 day old chicks scratch to find food, or jump from a stuffed dog and land on a sleeping chick below. LOL
Today is Day 21 and there are only 3 eggs from this batch still in the hatcher. Congratulations to everyone on their babies!!
