I got a chick!!! and 6 more pips!
DD called to tell me so I asked which one hatched so she's looking in the hatcher talking to me nad then glances over, "uh, mom, we have a cracked egg in the incubator"
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flashback a week or so DS collects eggs, I go out to spring clean the coop and kick all the girls out into the yard. A buff was being broody and when I toss her out I find 6 eggs of verying sizes and colors under her fluffy behind.
DS hasn't been collecting
all the eggs I guess. So we take the eggs in and I candle them. One of the blue ones seems pretty developed so I slip it in the bator, the others are marginal so I toss them.
fast forward to Sunday Ex's dog kills chickens including my blue egg layer
Yesterday morning when I moved the Icelandics to the hatcher I didn't think the blue egg was as close to term so I left it in the bator with the turkeys thinking it had another 3 or 4 days to lock down.
OK, now I don't want to put it in the hatcher because I want to know which one it is. So I asked DD to get a rubbermaid bowl and put a piece of self liner in the bottom and put it on the turner in the bator to heat up, in 30 minutes I will have her lay the egg in there so it can hatch and I won't have to worry about the poor chick having to get a leg stuck in the turner.
