Last chicks to hatch having problems and defects

[texasgal]

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I hear that! I've always "shot straight" with my own kids .. they've seen the process -- breeding, birth, death, etc. But it's always OTHER people's kids that you don't know about .. that's why I asked.

On a side note, DD13 is having a friend over friday nite .. and we have chicks hatching right now. DD13 wanted to know what she could tell her friend we were having for dinner ..

I told her "If these chicks will hurry up and hatch .. CHICKEN NUGGETS" .. We both laughed, then she said "Mom, I can't tell her that. She got mad at me during the last hatch when I made a similar joke."

some people's kids, huh? lol

Too funny. I do have some of the older kids making similar jokes, it tends to break up the tension in the room. We had this funny discussion about what chitterlings were today, one of the female students loves them, didn't mind when i told her what they were made of. She still had a problem with me eating the birds I raise though...which I thought was pretty funny.

LOL ... Oh those forming minds, huh?? It's alot to process, I guess.

 

[Egg_newton]

Well back on topic...Ol' Bulgie seems to be doing fine. The one eye seems to have closed permanently and the other only opens a tiny bit. But other than that it is getting around just fine. I've been watching closely to make sure the others aren't pecking at it. The one with curled toes straightened on its own. I had to help two others hatch after waiting on them for a day and a half. We will see if they make it. I ended up with 53 chicks out of 65 eggs. Not too awful bad for my first successful hatch.