Perfect day to be off work

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

I'm sitting here beside the incubator and listening to the steady work of a much-desired silkie chick emerging from its shell--no peeping, just concentrated pushings from inside the egg...life is good.

 

[afishel]

BigDaddy'sGurl :

I'm sitting here beside the incubator and listening to the steady work of a much-desired silkie chick emerging from its shell--no peeping, just concentrated pushings from inside the egg...life is good.

congrats can't wait to see pics!​

 

[Buff Hooligans]

BigDaddy'sGurl :

I'm sitting here beside the incubator and listening to the steady work of a much-desired silkie chick emerging from its shell--no peeping, just concentrated pushings from inside the egg...life is good.

Did the chick make it out?​

 

[b.hromada]

Yep,sounds like a great day to me!

 

[gryeyes]

I'm also on a "day off" *ahem* and have just taken 3 newly hatched lavender orpington chicks from 'bator #2 to add to the three 2-day old bantam cochin chicks hatched from 'bator #1, all in the brooder.

Newest hatchlings are almost 3 times the size of the banty cochins. But they're wobbly, so the little black cotton-balls can scoot around them like gymnasts.

Plus I still have 4 more eggs in the incubator that might hatch - TOMORROW was supposed to be the hatch day!

Yah, live is good. Perfect day to be off work. (For whatever reason.)

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

Ah well, life WAS good...for the two hours the chick made it after leaving the shell...it passed on in the brooder. Had the same thing happen with another silkie a couple weeks ago...other breeds are fine but for some reason I cannot get silkies to survive immediately after the hatch...I have had 3 successes out of 6. Others I hatch at the same time (other breeds) are all fine. Maybe it's my supplier's stock that is the prob...the eggs she gives me are never very successful... : (