Well, very interesting thread, indeed.
I am fairly new to hatching and I have assisted in the hatching of about seven chicks out of perhaps fifty. Four of those incidents were entirely due to my mistakes during the hatching process during lockdown. *I* shrink-wrapped those chicks. So I helped them out. Carefully. To the point where they still had to kick their way out of the re-moistened membrane after I picked off most of the shell.
One more I THOUGHT was due to my shrink-wrapping it, but it has a leg problem. It has survived, but it may die later.
Another hatched upside down. Who knows if that was a genetics problem or "operator problem" on my part?
One was a very weak chick and it died within 2 days.
Other chicks hatching all by themselves have died, too. For whatever reason.
In my case, I see no problem with assisting a chick *I* caused to be shrink-wrapped.
I do NOT break open or artificially pip other eggs which do not pip on their own. If they die inside the intact shell, they were not meant to hatch.
I am fairly new to hatching and I have assisted in the hatching of about seven chicks out of perhaps fifty. Four of those incidents were entirely due to my mistakes during the hatching process during lockdown. *I* shrink-wrapped those chicks. So I helped them out. Carefully. To the point where they still had to kick their way out of the re-moistened membrane after I picked off most of the shell.
One more I THOUGHT was due to my shrink-wrapping it, but it has a leg problem. It has survived, but it may die later.
Another hatched upside down. Who knows if that was a genetics problem or "operator problem" on my part?
One was a very weak chick and it died within 2 days.
Other chicks hatching all by themselves have died, too. For whatever reason.
In my case, I see no problem with assisting a chick *I* caused to be shrink-wrapped.
I do NOT break open or artificially pip other eggs which do not pip on their own. If they die inside the intact shell, they were not meant to hatch.
