So I went to candle my eggs tonight, and there were three that seemed to be quitters. All the other embryos looked bigger, and there was more veins, so I grabbed those that looked far behind in incubation (three) and was ready to cull them. I thought they were for sure dead, there has been 109 temp spikes every other day(LG), but I usualy don't worry about it, because I get really good hatch rates anyways. So I thought that it was natural that some didn't make it. Off to toss 'em I went. Then, I thought...why not open them up and see what happened? BIG MISTAKE I only craked one egg, the one that seemed like developement hardly got pass day 2. There wwas an embryo inside....
.....and the heart was still beating
......and it was one of my precious blue hen eggs
, I only set 5 eggs from that one blue hen......now theres four...who knows how many will actually hatch, I hope at least one grows to be an adult.
Man I wish I wouldn't have cracked that one open first
. But at least I had enough common sense to save the other two eggs and I put them back in the bator. Oh well.....guess it's all just part of the experience. Learn something new every time I hatch
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But I am sorry to hear it was from your fav hen
hugs to you
