MarshyRooster
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- Feb 28, 2021
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I have a young chick (Dawnwing) in the brooder right now, with her buddies Moonwing and Breezewing. I'm delighted to have her, but I really don't know how I have her. I put her egg in the incubator with five other eggs and then waited. I don't know how, but I lost count of the days and didn't know when she was supposed to hatch. My dad wanted to throw her egg out, but I told him not to. I don't know why, but it was apparently a very good choice. The night before she hatched, I thought I was hearing things when I heard chirping. I knew the ducklings were safe and sound in the shop- not in my bedroom- but I knew I was hearing something. I was really alarmed, and the thought of hatching eggs (Dawnwing was now one of the two only remaining eggs in the incubator) DID cross my mind, but I thought Dawnwing was dead in the egg. Two days ago, she'd been an unmoving blob with a few veins, barely even an embryo. The next day, she was exactly the same day. I hadn't candled her that night. I thought she was definitely dead. But the next morning, my dad got me up and told me she was hatching, and she was. She hatched pretty fast- she'd been working in the night. I was shocked. I sort of still am. How did Dawnwing go from the blob-with-a-few-veins to a chick so fast? Please tell me if you have any idea.