March Hatch A Long... anyone with me??

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Out of the 20 eggs I set, 6 hatched with no problem. Two started and zipped partially. Died in shell. One little guy had struggled for about 36 hours, so my DS and I decided to help him hatch. It was terrible. The membrane was dried and stuck everywhere. We picked and picked and picked at the shell. Poor little fella's head was glued to his thigh by a piece of membrane. DS and I carefully snipped it free. Membranes dried to white and glued all over him. Big chunk of shell stuck to it's head. We put the poor guy back in the 'bator on a warm wet washcloth, with the humidity as high as I could get it. We didn't hold out much hope for it, but slowly slowly he unkinked himself, and began moving. Pretty soon, he was off the washcloth and traveling round the 'bator. Left him in there until the next day, expecting him to die. To my surprise he was still alive the next morning. But, he had a bad leg(splayed I guess), and the foot on that leg was bent, folded under. Did the bandaid on the legs, and cut a cardboard circle to flatten his foot in normal position and bandaid to the foot. Put him in the brooder with the other 6, but in a plastic box with his own sugar water with a little acv in it. Dipped his beak. He drank deeply. That was my first indication of what a little fighter he is. Later that day, I checked on him, and he was in the corner, stuck behind his water, unable to move because of the bandaids holding his little legs together. Cold, near death. Pulled him out dried his hospital room out where he spilled water, stuck him further under the light in the brooder. A few hours later he was up, chirping like nothing had happened. By monday morning, he had pulled the splint off the bottom of his foot, and was drinking and eating and moving around. Still has big chunk of shell stuck to his head. (Soaked him in warm water Sunday, peeled big chunks of membrane off of his back, couldn't soak head though). Monday night we decided to take other bandaid off legs, and put him with the general population. (One of the other 6 died Sunday). He's weak, wobbly, and the leg still has a tendency to sprawl to the right, but I have seen him gather up both legs under him and run across the floor of the brooder. Man, I thought of culling, early on. My Ds and I discussed it, but he seems to have such a powerful will to live, that we just could not do it.
 
I have 11 Olive eggers and 10 birchen marans going into lockdown today. One of the birchen eggs had a large crack in it when I looked at it today and I don't know how it got there. I checked them all when I put them in the turner and have looked at them several times throughout incubation. Wierd..it looks cracked inward not outwards definitely not a pip. I just stuck some scotch tape on it so I hope it works.
 
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Just plugged in my 1588 today. Going to set another batch of Silkie eggs this friday. The buffs have been laying so good, I filled up the incubator and had to put an egg auction up on ebay.
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Looks like the temp is holding steady in the 1588.

I'll plug in my 1602n tomorrow night and get it ready to move eggs over on sunday, due the 23rd.
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