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Hatching
- Apr 25, 2023
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Wow! I did not think hatching eggs as a class project would be such a roller coster of emotions!
After an ice storm in March we lost power for 1 1/2, 2 days at the school I work at. We do not know how long. We could not go there, drive there or anything. So the eggs stayed in the cold for all that time. Out of the 9 eggs, believe it or not, 1 survived past the 12 days of incubation all the other eggs stopped at. I guess he was delayed by the cold, but he started moving in egg at Day 21. He was rocking and chirping all day 23. Then during the evening, nothing. I anxiously read it was normal. ''He was resting'' Backyard Chickens posters said.
Next day still nothing. Today, I pick it up quickly, candle him. I see no air cell. I don't hear any chirping, no movement. I opened the egg, pierced the membrane, no blood, nothing. But the little one is fully developed. Little beak behind the membrane comes out. His small wet hair. I touched his beak with my tonsils and he doesn't move. Completely dead.
We are still incubating new eggs for May, because it's still a project we do for the kids. But this little one was like the miracle one, you know, the survivor. I feel like a mess, I did drop some tears for the chick. Is that normal? I feel so emotional just for the little bird, ...haha. I feel like I lost a pet.
It's my first time incubating chicken eggs, ever, by the way.
After an ice storm in March we lost power for 1 1/2, 2 days at the school I work at. We do not know how long. We could not go there, drive there or anything. So the eggs stayed in the cold for all that time. Out of the 9 eggs, believe it or not, 1 survived past the 12 days of incubation all the other eggs stopped at. I guess he was delayed by the cold, but he started moving in egg at Day 21. He was rocking and chirping all day 23. Then during the evening, nothing. I anxiously read it was normal. ''He was resting'' Backyard Chickens posters said.
Next day still nothing. Today, I pick it up quickly, candle him. I see no air cell. I don't hear any chirping, no movement. I opened the egg, pierced the membrane, no blood, nothing. But the little one is fully developed. Little beak behind the membrane comes out. His small wet hair. I touched his beak with my tonsils and he doesn't move. Completely dead.
We are still incubating new eggs for May, because it's still a project we do for the kids. But this little one was like the miracle one, you know, the survivor. I feel like a mess, I did drop some tears for the chick. Is that normal? I feel so emotional just for the little bird, ...haha. I feel like I lost a pet.
It's my first time incubating chicken eggs, ever, by the way.
