Hello! I've been lurking here at BYC for almost a year. I sincerely want to thank you guys for such a wonderful forum and source of information. This incubating thread in particular gave me the courage to order fertilized eggs to start my first flock.
I have 18 Welsummer eggs from Whitmore farms in my incubator due to hatch July 1 - tomorrow. I'm really hoping that someone is online because I need a little bit of reassurance. I have an early bird, we'll call him Spike. I watched him pip and zip and it was awesome! He was just born 10 minutes ago. He's my first chicken ever. He's cute as a button. My concern is, he seems angry as all get out. He's screaming his head off in the 'bator behind me and he's kicking all the other eggs around. I know I'm not supposed to open the incubator and that I need to just leave him in there.
Could someone please tell me this in normal? *help*
