Pleasant Surprise

[Black Feather]

Came home to a nice surprise tonight.

My hatch for the weekend had pretty much finished except for one last egg in the incubator. It was 3/4 hatched all the way around, but had not made much progress for about 24ish hours. Now me being a bit of a softy and knowing I had been in and out of the incubator a few times decided to help this little one out of the egg as I suspected it wouldn't have a whole lot longer to live otherwise. Sure enough it had dried in the eggs a bit most likely making it impossible for the little one to hatch. Once out of the egg I dried it off a bit and placed him in the brooder with the rest while I did the morning chores. When I came back in the little guy was not looking good at all and I figured it had gotten past the point of no return so I placed it back in the incubator to pass away quietly on it's own without being trampled by it's clutch mates.

Low and behold when I got home to take the 'body' out of the incubator it was there peeping at me, all dried off and running around! What a nice surprise. It's now in the brooder running around with the rest of it's siblings.

Urban Coyote

 

[Robin L]

aw what a great surprise! Congrats!!

 

[kdcrws]

What a lucky little guy! I love a story with a happy ending

 

[LocoPollo]

Nice! congrats!

 

[TriciaHowe]

I always love a happy ending

 

[AngieChick]

Oh, I am so glad he made it for you. What a nice story to read, thank you so much for posting it.

 

[Black Feather]

Yeah, I thought it was pretty nice too. He's still up and kicking this morning so I consider that a good sign. Maybe I should mark him so I will know which chick has the greatest survival instinct.

 

[Happy Chicken Mama]

Wow! That is wonderful! What a releif.

We have one that we helped who is now our favorite chicken by far.
It's like she knows that we helped her.

Congratulations on the hatch!