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Good question! Where is that broody aficionado when I need her!
I have questions, queries, poses [spoken in my best #5 voice
] to ask her!
GeeGee has one egg that is still developing. All of the other three were no good. One was a dud from the beginning, one looked like a 3 day quitter, and the last one looked like it made it to day 18 or so. It would be just my luck that the one and only other viable egg that I knew of at the time, was harmed somehow when I moved them from the coop to the brooder with GeeGee.
But now I have this egg that looks to be on around day 6 or 7, [when I compare it to SilkieChicken's pictures in her day by day progression of incubation] that I could swear I saw movement in. I thought maybe at first that it was on account of my shifting the egg around on my candling light, so I turned off the light for a moment, held very still, and then turned the light back on. And then waited....it didn't take long. There! Right there!! I swear I saw it move!!
So, I'm gonna hang on, let GeeGee keep sitting on it, [She seems very inclined to do so, so far] and see what transpires in say another three or four days when I'll candle again and see if it was just my imagination, or indeed a viable, thriving egg.
So, now you see why I would so dearly love for Nella to put in an appearance at the very least! I need to pick the brains of someone with a great deal of broody experience, especially with regards to the attitudes and behaviours of first time girls!
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Where are YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
I need yer help woman!! Come on!! Don't make me call out the flying monkeys and track your butt down!!
Please???
ETA: I think this egg must have been slipped in a day or two prior to moving GeeGee to the brooder. Remember my saying that she had gotten in a tussle with one of the other girls and one egg went completely missing, and that another one had been kicked out of the nest? I thought when I picked up all of her eggs that perhaps I had simply missed finding the egg in all of the shavings after the invasion of the other girl.
Even though I searched in that box extensively, I couldn't dismiss the possibility that it had been there, all along. What would y'all care to bet it wasn't there following the tussle, but is in fact a replacement egg that I somehow missed?
