perlahatch
Hatching
- Mar 18, 2019
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I have had a backyard flock for a few years but this was the first year that we decided to incubate our own eggs. They were supposed to hatch on Friday but they hadn't. I got it in my mind that we had kept the incubator too hot and heated the eggs to death. I wanted to crack the eggs open because I wanted to show my young children how eggs really CAN develop into chickens, and I thought it would be valuable to show them what an embryo looks like. Two of them looked like they had made it midway through their development before they died, and another looked like it had almost made it, but I am pretty sure they had died. I opened another one (just a little hole in the shell) and blood came out, and it chirped! I rushed to put it back in the incubator, and 6 hours later it is still alive. At the same time, my niece cracked another one a tiny bit, and that one too chirped. That one is barely open and I am afraid to touch it or really look at it up close.
Do they have a chance of living?
I feel so sad and foolish. I didn't think I'd feel this way but I feel so sad that at least one chick is probably going to die because of something stupid I did.
Any advice for me? Has this happened to any of you? I am specifically wondering if the chick that bled a little will maybe infect the other egg in the incubator. I work all day tomorrow so I won't be able to do much by way of monitoring them.
I had read some stories where chicks hatched later, but they all seemed to say that excessive heat will definitely kill them. If you are reading this, please please PLEASE give much more time if necessary.
Do they have a chance of living?
I feel so sad and foolish. I didn't think I'd feel this way but I feel so sad that at least one chick is probably going to die because of something stupid I did.
Any advice for me? Has this happened to any of you? I am specifically wondering if the chick that bled a little will maybe infect the other egg in the incubator. I work all day tomorrow so I won't be able to do much by way of monitoring them.
I had read some stories where chicks hatched later, but they all seemed to say that excessive heat will definitely kill them. If you are reading this, please please PLEASE give much more time if necessary.
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