I couldn't attach the video, the egg is very dark and hard to see but it looked like 2 distinct heart beats, at the angle you can see them clearest one is at the front and the other behind and to the left.
I don't think I am up for a saran wrap hatch. I'm crossing my fingers for this one, but I am fully aware it's chances aren't high. I feel like anecdotally, #4 is the most likely. Ie, one embryo will die and take the second down with it.
A friend of mine found this beauty among their (late) grandmother's belonging. She was clearly a beloved bird-- what was she? Hard to tell from the picture, but she is bantam sized.
Just some baby pictures! They are getting so big, and all my little roos are so handsome, how will I ever narrow them down? I'm already up to 4 keeper roosters!
And they aren't even listed on Ideal Poultry's site!
I'll take better pictures to confirm, but it never even occurred to me to count the toes, and it certainly looks like 5 there.
I hadn't decided what to do yet, but I figured she needed breakfast while I figured it out.... I propped her up in the dog bed, made some scrambled eggs, came back and she had died.
Poor old Ethel. I wish I had noticed how poorly she was earlier.
Breed: silver laced Wyandotte
Age: unknown, but bare minimum of two and likely much older.
Has not laid since May, no prior history known.
So my old drop off hen from this thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/ethel-needs-some-tlc.1542945/
has declined rapidly. Yesterday I decided...