UPDATE: I have 4 little fuzzy butts that are just too cute. Two fully formed that didn't pip. One egg I broke when the lamp fell. And l put the leftovers in the nasty LG that started working again but don't have a lot of hope. I'm just sooo thankful for my 4 lil ones.
I wish...I even tried cpr. Its pecker was out of the membrane and stuck as both dried out. Definitely over its nostrils. Pooor baby. Silly me, but I buried him w a prayer. Two I can see moving the beaks around the pip.
OK....UPDATE:
Put a warm, damp kitchen towel on top of the shavings, under the eggs. Looks like 1 is dead with its pecker sticking out of the pip hole. See 2 definitely pipping & alive. Hoping for (please) a few more
I most definitely keep y'all posted as you're officially godparents in my...
False alarm. I do hear a few peeps & some pipping. I am hoping that all these up & down temps & movement would sort of mimic nature. If mama goes for her ablutions, she's gotta knock them around a little & temps would also fluctuate. My little chick is fine & not too cold nor too warm & hanging...
I'm hatching 12 aracaunas & have 12 BCMs in the Genesis who are not due to go onto lockdown until Sun. It was that nasty LGD that I was using as the lockdown for these kids that went fluey. Probably because it heard me talking bad about it!
Thank you sooo much. When I searched for crockpot on here, the answer I saw was that even a crockpot on warm would be 140F. So I got a Rubbermate tub put down some wood shavings & attached a heat lamp. I'll be spritzing w water.
So far the new chick is doing really well. And I can still hear...