raeleigh26
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- Dec 22, 2015
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I ordered a second incubator. Guy took money and split. A fact we didn't realize until 4 days past the promised delivery date.
A date which I'd carefully scheduled to have my 15 day set and my 10 day set and my new set organized in perfect synchronicity to begin hatching in the old one and incubating in the new one for a two week cycle.
Sigh. The universe had other plans.
Ordered a new new one that should've been here in 3 days, but only arrived today, 4 days late. This is day 22 of my oldest set.
14 have hatched perfectly healthy. No foot or leg problems this time.
It wasn't until I began to move the younger eggs-
(that I'd planned on candling a few extra times since they spent 4 days in lockdown on their 7th day on)
-that I realized they were cold.
The old incubator quit with the new one barely 3 hours set up and stable.
I hastily switched tops. Water candled all of them (16 left) with only 2 definitive wobbles, I eggtopsied one I was positive was gone, only to have my ignorance sharply jabbed into my chest as the chick stopped moving in my hands. One crack was all it took to bleed it to death.
Another I dropped. 2inches. It had pipped, with no progress, and my arthritis coupled with my frantic heartbroken state may yet have doomed this little one as well.
It's currently blow dried, bottom still on after nearly bleeding out, (I replaced it in the broken shell until it pushed itself out before the yolk was absorbed totally) it's had a careful drop of water and 2 crumbles of food, been warmed again, and is currently nestled snugly in an egg carton "shell", where hopefully it's not too weak to close the remaining little bit of navel and recover.
There have been no more pips.
But I'm so reluctant to give up. I'll undoubtedly give them a couple more days.
Dh has another incubator on its way. The 15th it should be here.
A date which I'd carefully scheduled to have my 15 day set and my 10 day set and my new set organized in perfect synchronicity to begin hatching in the old one and incubating in the new one for a two week cycle.
Sigh. The universe had other plans.
Ordered a new new one that should've been here in 3 days, but only arrived today, 4 days late. This is day 22 of my oldest set.
14 have hatched perfectly healthy. No foot or leg problems this time.
It wasn't until I began to move the younger eggs-
(that I'd planned on candling a few extra times since they spent 4 days in lockdown on their 7th day on)
-that I realized they were cold.
The old incubator quit with the new one barely 3 hours set up and stable.
I hastily switched tops. Water candled all of them (16 left) with only 2 definitive wobbles, I eggtopsied one I was positive was gone, only to have my ignorance sharply jabbed into my chest as the chick stopped moving in my hands. One crack was all it took to bleed it to death.
Another I dropped. 2inches. It had pipped, with no progress, and my arthritis coupled with my frantic heartbroken state may yet have doomed this little one as well.
It's currently blow dried, bottom still on after nearly bleeding out, (I replaced it in the broken shell until it pushed itself out before the yolk was absorbed totally) it's had a careful drop of water and 2 crumbles of food, been warmed again, and is currently nestled snugly in an egg carton "shell", where hopefully it's not too weak to close the remaining little bit of navel and recover.
There have been no more pips.
But I'm so reluctant to give up. I'll undoubtedly give them a couple more days.
Dh has another incubator on its way. The 15th it should be here.
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