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Okay, guys, here's where we stand. One of the Ameraucanas had not moved nor pipped. We opened it. Apparently, it had died sometime just before Day 18. It just quit developing. I didn't candle when I put these in the hatcher like I usually do, but I dont' know if I would have caught it. They were all fine on Day 14.
The other Ameraucana seems to be a black one, probably cockerel due to the already prominent little pea comb. Skye's first baby is blue, the second one is still drying, but is either black or blue.
Two of Kate's BRs are just pipped. One of hers, #10, had not moved lately, so we pipped it and it had deceased in the last couple of days. Dont know why. But of the 10 eggs she gave me, I have 9 little BRs in the brooder.
Lexie's big egg...that one I candled when I collected it to be sure it wasn't a double because it was humongous, a super-jumbo. Poor Lex is only about 5 lb and practically naked from her extended molt. That egg did pip, but made no progress at all. We helped it along some. WOW. It was a HUGE chick with gargantuan feet! A cockerel, I think, due to no black down the front of the legs and has a slightly open belly button, but that chick filled that entire turkey-sized egg! I hope he makes it, but he's resting now and maybe the umbilicus will close off. The entire hatch was very, very clean other than his little bottom. I will not be incubating her eggs for awhile nor sending any of her eggs to anyone else till her condition is better and her chicks are back to normal strength again. At least I have her son Gabriel and her little daughter Zoe, who is five and a half weeks old, in the nursery coop.
So, I'm still waiting on the last two pipped eggs to continue.
The other Ameraucana seems to be a black one, probably cockerel due to the already prominent little pea comb. Skye's first baby is blue, the second one is still drying, but is either black or blue.
Two of Kate's BRs are just pipped. One of hers, #10, had not moved lately, so we pipped it and it had deceased in the last couple of days. Dont know why. But of the 10 eggs she gave me, I have 9 little BRs in the brooder.
Lexie's big egg...that one I candled when I collected it to be sure it wasn't a double because it was humongous, a super-jumbo. Poor Lex is only about 5 lb and practically naked from her extended molt. That egg did pip, but made no progress at all. We helped it along some. WOW. It was a HUGE chick with gargantuan feet! A cockerel, I think, due to no black down the front of the legs and has a slightly open belly button, but that chick filled that entire turkey-sized egg! I hope he makes it, but he's resting now and maybe the umbilicus will close off. The entire hatch was very, very clean other than his little bottom. I will not be incubating her eggs for awhile nor sending any of her eggs to anyone else till her condition is better and her chicks are back to normal strength again. At least I have her son Gabriel and her little daughter Zoe, who is five and a half weeks old, in the nursery coop.
So, I'm still waiting on the last two pipped eggs to continue.
