Hatching baby keets

[bbelflower]

It is always a hard situation when to intervene with the hatching of the babies but I am thankful I helped mine out. I too wrapped the egg in a warm paper towel and helped chip away at the shell until the top portion was removed. The keet was able to take it from there and is thriving! The other egg I was not able to help and that keet did not make it - the membrane adhered to the beak and the keet suffocated.    One important thing to remember is when helping assist the keets hatch in an incubator, make sure the humidity level is around 70%.

You will receive loads of advice from people on both sides of the debate - use your best judgment and read the posts online. You will learn a lot of helpful information. Best of luck!

I followed some good advice from here and on the internet it was very helpful and a comment that was said is so true too was if you feel uncomfortable doing something then it probably isn't right anyways, which proved to be true on one particular egg where it was apparently too soon to be hatching and the membrane was real veiny and when it tore the Kerr started to bleed and died later the next morning

, but we learned from that experience and have never repeated that sad experience again. Thank you all for your advice and thoughts and input. It is all taken into consideration BELIEVE me!!!

 

[SunHwaKwon]

That is the right attitude. It's sad to lose one but you have gained experience and will be better able to help any future keets