Update from the funny farm! My daughter just called to update on the hatch!
Here's a good one for you sick incubator nuts like me!
We have been hatching for a few days. Silkies mostly but we have a duck, yes just one duck. Well anyway, most of the hatchlings are in a brooder (made out of rubbermaid containers. ) This AM when I left we had the 2 pippers 4 others and the one cheerleader in the incubator, everyone else in the brooder. When DD called and I asked her to check on the pippers, she said one is dead, but it has wing feathers, they don't hatch with wing feathers and there are 3 in the brooder but only one shell. one dead, the cheerleader and the pipster and 4 others. and one pipping still. Talk about alien invasion. How the heck does that happen.
SOOO, I call DH, also known in some realms as dinggey husband!!! Anyhoo, I ask him if any of the chickens hatched this am before he left, which was about 5 minutes after I left. Or did he remove an egg this morning or something? Whoever did, it is dead now
He replies " WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT" So I go on to explain there are 3 chicks in there hatched but only one egg and one of them is dead. again I ask, "did you remove any eggshells this am before you left"
DH said," Oh
I added a chick, I did not remove an egg it was a silkie that was no doing good, from the brooder, duck smasher got it. This is the 2nd babie we lost to the "SMASHER"
duckie duddle's new name. Now it is all clearer
Anyway, DD is gonna put "Smasher" in his own brooder to save the others.