Thank you all for your wonderful support through the --blah-- that was this ordeal. It is day 21 am of the incubation, out of 28 viable eggs I have 24 chicks right now and 2 more that have pipped. My little breech pip made it and is doing really great. I am so glad that my intervention did not...
Well, little peep is still hanging in there:) I have had an additional 4 pips (6 total now)since I put the breech back in and I am actually using a syringe with a long thin hypo needle to drip warm (102) water onto the exposed membrane. I can still see the blood vessels but they are getting much...
Thank you so much for the words of encouragement as well as the very sage advice. I am watching over it like a mother hen:P and talking to it to give it encouragement, silly I know but it makes me feel better. I will post when something changes. Thank you again!!!!
I have 28 eggs of various breeds (got them from a local farm) and this is day 19 pm and I have one egg pipped at the correct end and one that pipped this morning on the breech end. I waited 8 hours and nothing more from it. I was worried that it had drown or sufficated and so against so many...
I just wanted to say Hi to all and thank everyone who has taken the time to post Q&A as I have alreeady learned quite a lot and can not wait to add my knowledge to this forum! I am a Preschool teacher and Mom of 2 fabulous kids and wife to a wonderful man!! I LOVE punctuation...I don't know why...