REPORT
My daughter woke me at 6:30 and said I had to get up and do something about the hatched chick running amock in the hatcher
I got up and went to look .......... one of the mystery LF chicks I bought in the store had hatched and when it got out of the carton, the weight of the huge egg opposite it flipped the carton and that egg rolled out, the third egg at the other end of the carton kept the carton tilted up and the wet chick was huddled under the carton. [Pics to follow, camera battery charging] There was nothing going on in the Suro with the 15 B-Ameraacauna eggs in it. I went back to bed for "another hour", and DH woke me at 11:30 saying I needed to get up so we could go to Lowes for the crate I bought before he had to leave for work. Checked bators, still just the one LF chick but 4 sweet the bantam-A babies filling the empty space in the center of the Suro
It's really going to be crowded in there if I don't pull some, but will wait for now.
One lesson learned --- Don't try to hatch honkin-big eggs in a carton!
Lay them on their sides Hope DSIL gets home soon so that I can get back home to check progress in the hatchers!!!
That was at 3:45. When I got home, there were 5 fuzzys in the bator! Also a pip and a zip ------------- and VERY CROWDED!! Quickly finished brooders and moved the first 7, left the damp one, soon joined by a new baby! I will do pics when I find my camera!