ShonaUK
Yesterday 3:35 am
Advice needed because the vets in Italy will just tell me to put it out of its misery ... one of my bantams has hatched six chicks and they are doing well. After 23 days she had abandoned the other two and they were cold. I left them a whole day to see if she would go back to them but no, so I just presumed they were not going to hatch and put them in the compost. They have been there three days! and this morning when I went out to tidy up, I moved the top layer with a garden fork and heard cheeping! At first I thought one of the six had escaped, then I saw movement and realised that one of the abandoned eggs was hatching
Quote:
OOOOOOOH great advice here!
I was about to abandon my egg hatching experiment under my broody hen and toss it in the compost pile!!
Its been 23 days, if I counted right, and nothings happened. I candled the egg and its all dark inside.
Could've bet money I heard peeping on Thursday..... today the egg is silent....no signs of pipping either.
If I counted correctly Shona's eggs hatched in the compost pile at 26-27 days?
So give or take a few days on my own eggs hatch date, it could still be in the game under the hen???? Maaaaaybe???
Yesterday 3:35 am
Advice needed because the vets in Italy will just tell me to put it out of its misery ... one of my bantams has hatched six chicks and they are doing well. After 23 days she had abandoned the other two and they were cold. I left them a whole day to see if she would go back to them but no, so I just presumed they were not going to hatch and put them in the compost. They have been there three days! and this morning when I went out to tidy up, I moved the top layer with a garden fork and heard cheeping! At first I thought one of the six had escaped, then I saw movement and realised that one of the abandoned eggs was hatching
Quote:
OOOOOOOH great advice here!
I was about to abandon my egg hatching experiment under my broody hen and toss it in the compost pile!!
Its been 23 days, if I counted right, and nothings happened. I candled the egg and its all dark inside.
Could've bet money I heard peeping on Thursday..... today the egg is silent....no signs of pipping either.
If I counted correctly Shona's eggs hatched in the compost pile at 26-27 days?
So give or take a few days on my own eggs hatch date, it could still be in the game under the hen???? Maaaaaybe???
