So I got my incubator turned off again for another day, went to a Serama show and brought back some eggs! I didn't mean to. I have around 100 Seramas. I was admiring somebody's trio that they had for sale. I didn't really want them and they were more than I would have spent....but I found a buyer for them and in return was offered a dozen eggs from that trio. Into the bator!
Only two eggs were good. The rest looked a bit old and never developed. Then our electricity went off two different times. We have a generator, but it still gives the incubator a fit when this happens. Both hatched, but both were upside down and I had to assist. They were more than ready when I helped, but one just layed there for 24 hours before he decided he was born now. He then took 4 days before starting to eat, so I gave him baby bird formula to keep him going. His eating behavior finally kicked in and now he's catching up to the other one.
Only two eggs were good. The rest looked a bit old and never developed. Then our electricity went off two different times. We have a generator, but it still gives the incubator a fit when this happens. Both hatched, but both were upside down and I had to assist. They were more than ready when I helped, but one just layed there for 24 hours before he decided he was born now. He then took 4 days before starting to eat, so I gave him baby bird formula to keep him going. His eating behavior finally kicked in and now he's catching up to the other one.
Glad to hear it.
I said I would get a few pictures.... Here is a somewhat odd hatch from a few weeks ago. I had traded some Serama eggs with somebody at a show, so my incubator was turned off for only about two days. So...out of those 10 eggs, three very cute black mottled chicks hatched. The others were not fertile. And of course, two eggs from some very small silkied seramas of mine somehow found their way into the bator. Those two hatched and are very tiny. And...a few days before these chicks hatched, I had a mother call duck hatch some babies but there were still two viable eggs in her nest. So...I put them in the incubator. One of these was obviously not a duck egg. A Silkie hen snuck one into the nest. The other looked like a duck egg. Same shape, size and greenish color. Well these two babies hatched the same day as the Serama chicks, but were both chickens! No duckling. The only possibility is an old Ameraucana hen that hardly ever lays an egg, and her mate who is a white d'Uccle roo. Here is a picture of the silkie chick, the Am/Uccle and the two tiny silkied Serama chicks. All the same age and still in the same pen together. 
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