Hatch Day With Intervention - Pic heavy (mild graphic)

[Wildsky]

Look at the little TUFT:

 

[Joy1]

Brings a smile to the face

 

[hinkjc]

Aww, so cute! Yup, she is a tufty blue baby. Great job helping her. Many tufted die in the shell on araucana between days 18-21. Great job rescuing that cutie!

Jody

 

[Wildsky]

OH NO!!!!

I moved the babies into the brooder - went back to the bator to turn it off and heard a noise

I picked up the larger EE egg, and decided to make a hole - I don't want to see a dead baby - but had to open it.

ITS ALIVE!!!!!!!

I have been in twice now pulling off shell and a tiny bit of membrane - the other egg looks like a dead baby - died a while ago.......

 

[hinkjc]

Hold off on opening that EE baby. Mine usually take 22-23 days to hatch. As long as it has the hole, it can breathe just fine. I'd give it some time to try on its own. Good luck.

Jody

 

[Wildsky]

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Thanks Jody - she's half way open already.......... the shell was dry and brittle and the membrane almost seems like a double layer
Her beak is out and one eye (she's looking at me) she's all wrapped in wet paper towels to have a rest..... she peeped once but otherwise quiet......

I think perhaps my humidity was too low ? ? it was around 70% the entire last three days, I did manage to get it up a little higher at one point, but when I upped the humidity - the temp dropped. So I left it at 70%....

 

[Wildsky]

I'm waiting and watching, she's become a little louder and is wiggling around.....

 

[Smitty's Farm]

WOW! You did a great job!!!!!

Those chicks are so cute!

How are the rest coming along?

 

[coffeemama]

Great photos-very suspenseful! I was seriously chewing my nails while going down the page

The babes are sooo cute!

 

[Wildsky]

The last little baby is still in her half shell with wet paper towels around her, still breathing, moving peeping... she did break a piece of shell off herself, but so far is still folded up inside the shell.....