Thanks!! These are all silkies in this pen. Other than 4 other adults, the rest are 2 months to 5 months old.
Absolutely!! Thank you! I'm going to let them out and see what happens.
I have an EE and a Black Sex Link hen both brooding some eggs in the regular big girl pen. They are about a week into it. I"m thinking of moving them broody box and all into a separate area. Or at least lowering them from their high brooder box to a lower area, so there isn't such a drop.
For the baby that wasn't getting up. I couldn't stand it's crying, so I opened the bator and it was covered in yolk, so was cemented to the shelf liner, another egg and the side of the brooder. I spent way too much time getting him out - so I'm apologizing now to the rest of the unhatched eggs. We spent about 10 minutes under a stream of hot water, trying to get the goop off. I have no idea how to get the egg shell off the side of it's face. I cleaned him as much as possible and tossed him/her back into the hatching brooder. It's body is mostly clean, but it still has a small piece of egg shell stuck to the side of it's face. I'm hoping it will fall off.
Humidity is back up to 70%, so I'm hoping I didn't do too much damage. The Brinsea is nice, but it isn't easy to open it to quickly take out a chick.
It will come off soon.