Ooops...Chick Plinko

[Ryu]

I heard a very unhappy chick thing morning and realized it wasn't in the hatcher. I scrambled over to the incubator and started scanning the shelves for the baby. I must have missed an egg when I moved the last batch of eggs to the hatcher.

The incubator is absolutely full, so I started pulling out racks of eggs. I found the empty shell, and no baby. He had fallen from the second shelf all the way to the bottom of the incubator. We named him/her Plinko after the Price is Right game.

Plinko is doing fine with the other chicks, but I'll be double checking the egg count from now on!

 

[eestep8]

Aww poor thing.
They are tough, I was trying to pet one of ours and it went rolling down my sis and landed on the floor, about a foot drop and thank GOD it was fine. I felt so miserable for days.

I guess the lower humidity didn't affect that egg.

 

[justuschickens59]

Awww, poor baby. I am glad he is okay. And what a wonderful name, Plinko !! Love it !!

 

[Ryu]

I felt just awful when I realized what had happened. He was still very wet when I found him, so I don't think he was out very long.

They all are doing well, it's impossible to find him in with the others now. He was from the smallest egg--that's how I missed him. The other eggs were much larger, I thought he was a different part of the other blue egg hatch for next week.

I've updated the egg marking system, hopfully I won't miss any in the future! We've got hatches every 4 days for the next two weeks--150 eggs total--it's very confusing right now!