First Hatch-a-Long!

[casportpony]

Overdue update:
Chick #1 only got about halfway hatched before dying.
Chick #2 hatched a few days later, later in the evening, and seemed to be doing well but passed away overnight.

The second batch of 3 is now on lockdown (day 19), so we'll see if these ones hatch out okay. If so, then the first two died due to the incubator malfunction earlier. If not, then I get the fun task of figuring out if it's the rooster, or something going on will all three hens, or what.
Anyway, just have to wait and see!

Sorry for your losses, hope this next one goes well.

 

[casportpony]

The next round of hatching has begun! Zelda's egg was pipped and hard at work zipping around the shell as I left for work this morning, and I came home to find the chick chilling on one of the sponges I have in the incubator for humidity. It's standing up and wobbling around now, only about halfway fluffed out, and peeping up a storm . I wasn't really expecting any activity until tomorrow so this was a nice surprise. No pipping from the other two eggs yet.

Congrats!