elliandfritz
Songster
- Mar 2, 2019
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We’ve been raising chicks we bought and have some adult seramas that we were able to buy from a breeder. However, we hadn’t attempted eggs. We have a young momma that decided she wanted to go broody a few weeks ago. She ended up sitting on nine eggs from herself and one of our other Serama hens. She kept stealing more eggs, but we cut her off at nine because her body isn’t that big.
We thought she was due to hatch them Sunday or Monday, but when we woke up today they had hatched!
We got her moved to a larger cage to raise her chicks. When she moved, we found 7 of 9 had hatched! We saw that one of the unhatched eggs looked like it had been stepped on and had started to dry. We struggled with what to do but eventually opened it for the chick and placed the chick in our running incubator. The 9th egg that hadn’t hatched was the last egg laid, so we decided to move it to the incubator as well to give it some more time.
The little chick we had to help dried off in the incubator and started walking around, so we moved it back with the momma. It’s currently wiggling it’s way under her. I’m really hoping it pulls through. I probably shouldn’t have opened the egg but I just freaked out because it looked so stuck but was wiggling around in there acting like it couldn’t poke through the thick membrane. There was a little bit of blood but it was dried up before the chick went back with mom.
So, there are 8 tiny tiny Serama babies! We’re hoping most of them make it through chickhood!
Our first sight this morning:
What we found when we got momma to her bigger cage:
The babies:
We thought she was due to hatch them Sunday or Monday, but when we woke up today they had hatched!
We got her moved to a larger cage to raise her chicks. When she moved, we found 7 of 9 had hatched! We saw that one of the unhatched eggs looked like it had been stepped on and had started to dry. We struggled with what to do but eventually opened it for the chick and placed the chick in our running incubator. The 9th egg that hadn’t hatched was the last egg laid, so we decided to move it to the incubator as well to give it some more time.
The little chick we had to help dried off in the incubator and started walking around, so we moved it back with the momma. It’s currently wiggling it’s way under her. I’m really hoping it pulls through. I probably shouldn’t have opened the egg but I just freaked out because it looked so stuck but was wiggling around in there acting like it couldn’t poke through the thick membrane. There was a little bit of blood but it was dried up before the chick went back with mom.
So, there are 8 tiny tiny Serama babies! We’re hoping most of them make it through chickhood!
Our first sight this morning:
What we found when we got momma to her bigger cage:
The babies:
