Good Morning everyone! Finished my chores enough to drop inI set 19 eggs, 3 made it to lockdown (but one didn't look active at that time, turned out a quitter) and had 2 hatch. One hatched upside down, and in hindsight, I should have just made sure it could breathe and left the shell in tact sans the little hole for breathing and let him do his thing. Fortunately, despite my interference, he's doing great. Here are my pictures:
This one suddenly zipped, and after taking this picture, I switched the camera over to video just in time to catch it throwing off the lid in a dramatic fashion and rolling right out of the shell! It was amazing!
He dragged a little blood around, but not much. Cute little bugger!
Then, the upsidedown pip that I had been messing with. Sinde the other one hatched, I waited a few more hours, but the membrane was getting dry, so I eventually removed it and took him out. He still had stuff in his belly, and he bled. It looked awful! But her turned out to be just fine. Lesson learned, leave 'em alone if everything else looks good (good looking membrane, could breathe, leave alone! LOL. I should not have peeled back the shell, and exposed the membrane causing the rest of the troubles!
Here they are drying off in the 'bator
Here they are in the brooder
And here they are again, sweet little peeping fluffy butts
I'm so happy for you! You were so worried about that one that pipped at the wrong end. But you have two cuties now. Are your chicks inside, or are they out in the garage? If inside, just a note..they don't need the red heat lamp. I use a 100 for the first day, then a 75 for a couple of days, then down to a 60 and so forth. That's, if they are inside. I love the one with the dark coloring on it!
