ummm what are we talking about?? MY Rooster or something ?
That was probably why the bator got quiet that morning, he died. But i don't understand.........from everything i read the egg shell is breathable? I don't understand why he died. I know it happened earlier that day, though because i did listen to the bator after i fished everyone out, and there wasn't even a squeak or shuffle in there. Perhaps an unnaturally hatched egg isn't as breathable as a broody hatched, they wear them thinner with all the turning.
I have an extra SF roo .. would you be interested ?
I had one last hatch that i honestly think was just too big to get out of the egg and regretted not trying to help but was afraid to try after the trouble with tye who i did accidentally help bu bumping the egg too hard and cracking it early for him ....Nothing. I autopsied the eggs, and one was a quitter. Made it i'd say to a few days before, he was all there but small. He never even uncurled.
The other one i'm sad about, and trying to understand. He was too big, from the looks of it, and he did pip the air pocket but never was able to make the turn to start pipping the egg.
I know that realistically i couldn't have done anything, because i would not have known which egg it was without pulling them all and listening, and that would have been too dangerous for the others. I just wish i understood what happened.
