Any hope for the anxious novice?

[Peskypigeon]

Grey egg is... scary. It’s seeping something brown through the shell, and is very much not alive anymore. I pulled it. I also pulled one that was clearly milky and underdeveloped compared to the others.

There are now 6 eggs in the incubator, but 5 of them look REALLY good for day 15. They all look like the attached image (which is chickens, but still) which is from another BYC thread. Let’s hope for all 5 littles...!

 

[Peskypigeon]

Grey egg is... scary. It’s seeping something brown through the shell, and is very much not alive anymore. I pulled it. I also pulled one that was clearly milky and underdeveloped compared to the others.

There are now 6 eggs in the incubator, but 5 of them look REALLY good for day 15. They all look like the attached image (which is chickens, but still) which is from another BYC thread. Let’s hope for all 5 littles...!

Normally I wouldn’t candle so much, I just needed to see them in complete darkness to identify the airsac and be sure of what I had seen earlier. Now, I will refill the water and not touch them until they hatch.

 

[JaeG]

 

[Peskypigeon]

Day 19 and I’m impatient... if they don’t hatch, I’m not quite sure where it went wrong with how developed they are. Should I candle and check on them? No birdie’s externally pipped. The humidity has kept at 81-83.

 

[Peskypigeon]

Day 19 and I’m impatient... if they don’t hatch, I’m not quite sure where it went wrong with how developed they are. Should I candle and check on them? No birdie’s externally pipped. The humidity has kept at 81-83.

AH okay, somebirdie’s was potentially moving in their shell and somebirdie has externally pipped?? I put him right back, I thought I felt the bump, and lo, there was a little push in the shell. NO
MORE FEARFUL CHECKING! I will be patient, I’m sorry little quails...!

 

[lu bantam chickens]

brilliant

 

[JaeG]

AH okay, somebirdie’s was potentially moving in their shell and somebirdie has externally pipped?? I put him right back, I thought I felt the bump, and lo, there was a little push in the shell. NO
MORE FEARFUL CHECKING! I will be patient, I’m sorry little quails...!

They'll be fine - I'm very hands on when I'm hatching. Awesome that you have some progress.

 

[Peskypigeon]

They’re hatching!!! One baby is out and healthy, peeping at the others. Another is wriggling, and one is zipping? Oh my god I’m in love

 

[Stino12]

WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO

 

[JaeG]

Aren't they the cutest, tiniest little creatures?!