HELP! Day 21: 9 eggs - 3 chicks, 1 rotten and 5 gross eggs!

[TinyFlock17]

What a beautiful mama - and all those cuties! What kind of chicks are they? And congratulations on such a wonderful hatch rate! We bought hatching eggs that had a rough trip between here and there (USPS issues!) and a first-time broody, so I told myself I'd be thankful for even one chick and we got three - a FBCM, a Blue Splash Marans and a Crested Cream Legbar that (I think!) is a female!

 

[randiferina]

How sweet!! She hatched 3 silkies, 2 blue jersey giant, 2 lavender americaunas, and 2 barnyard mixes.. The cracked egg that we discarded was a lavender americauna and we discarded another one she was still sitting on yesterday.. It was a dud! The other egg she had left was a silkie.. It still hadnt pipped this morning so i took it to do a float test and it didn't move.. I candled and pipped it and found that that the chick was deceased it had pipped internally and then it seems that it turned away from the hole and must have suffocated it's been our only causality! Pretty heart breaking.. But I'm happy to have 9 lively ones

What a beautiful mama - and all those cuties! What kind of chicks are they? And congratulations on such a wonderful hatch rate! We bought hatching eggs that had a rough trip between here and there (USPS issues!) and a first-time broody, so I told myself I'd be thankful for even one chick and we got three - a FBCM, a Blue Splash Marans and a Crested Cream Legbar that (I think!) is a female!

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