Eggs are a rockin' & I have another pip! **I have new 2 babies**

[ZooMummzy]

A couple more photos

are you my mommy?

this only lasts a few seconds then she is back to chirping for me lol....

 

[aalbury]

So CUTE!

 

[ZooMummzy]

The little baby is doing great, just won't let me leave the room

Went down to see if the others had pipped and heard faint chirps from inside the incubator. I didn't even know this would happen so I had to look it up online lol. Hopefully pips on the remaining 4 when I get back from Christmas shopping!

 

[Overeasyplz]

yay!! Go Chickies!!!!

 

[ZooMummzy]

My first little baby just died in my hand

I don't know what I did wrong. I'm going to bury her now. I have two more eggs pipping tonight but this one hurts. She was my first baby.

 

[kathyinmo]

Oh, I am so sorry for you. I know these things happen, but it always hurts! So sorry.

 

[GraceAK]

I'm so sorry....

I'm sure you did nothing wrong. Poor thing....

 

[BirdMom]

I'm so sorry you lost your first little baby. What a cute chick! I lost a duckling that was only a couple hours old about two weeks ago. No known reason, not even out of the bator yet, just gave up I guess. We have lost a couple of chicks over the last couple of years, and the first one was definitely the hardest. I hope your others hatch out strong and stick around for you.

A couple of suggestions; leave the remaining chicks in the bator for a day or so until the others have hatched. Their peeping will encourage the others to hurry up (amazing to watch new chicks run over to whoever is hatching and try to "help!" Usually by sitting on them!) They can last for two or three days without a problem as they've got all the newly absorbed yolk to fill their tummies.

Also, you might want to put the new ones on paper towels only, no shavings. Some people have found that the little ones will eat the shavings, instead of food, and that can lead to death. I'm sure that wasn't the case with this first little one, I doubt it had enough time to eat any/enough to cause it a problem. Newspaper is too slippery, but paper towels are perfect and make for really easy clean up.

Good luck with the rest! I hope you get to watch some hatch. It is such an amazing thing to have watched them develop in the egg, and then watch them struggle their way out. Every time, we're just glued to the bator window to watch this miracle.

Edited to add: As others have said, I'm sure you did nothing wrong. Sometimes they have something inside that just didn't quite develop right or something, so they just can't survive. But I'm sure it felt all your love and died happy and feeling safe.

 

[PandoraTaylor]

so sorry for your loss

 

[ZooMummzy]

I thank you all so much for your support and wishes. I really appreciate it. It's so hard losing these little guys.

Birdmom, a big thank you to you for all your suggestions. I needed these extra pointers and I really appreciate it. I did take her off the shavings. I usually get my chicks at least 3 to 5 days old and just wasn't thinking. While I don't think that is the cause of her death because she wasn't really eating anything at all, it is still a good.....but very hard lesson to learn. Thank you for reminding me. Also, thank you for telling me I should keep them in the brooder. I was going by the "till dry and fluffy" rule but obviously, it makes total sense that their chirping would bring out the others. Again, I just wasn't thinking and another hard lesson. Just from this egg hatching, another egg pipped and another egg started shaking and twitching. That leaves just one who is being lazy.

It was so exciting seeing the baby hatch! It was so amazing and I can't wait to see it again! Thank goodness I have a couple dozen eggs coming this week so I can do this all over again

I need to ask though, when the baby came out, there was a little blood and a small hole in its belly, which was very round. Is that the yolk? and I'm assuming this is normal? Sorry, I'm still really learning all this stuff but learning fast and well

The chick is doing fine, so far...getting around the brooder and chirping like crazy. I'm hoping to have some more babies by morning. They don't replace the little one I lost, but they do ease the pain.

Thank you for being here with me and helping. You guys are great.