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Glad you explained!! Sure does look like a 2 headed chickie!! Good picture.
Here's my update!
Bantams - I have 20!!! (out of 28) I am amazed how good a hatch I had from those eggs!!! Everything that pipped hatched.
Reds - 7 of 14 hatched. I had one more that pipped, was zipping, got rolled and didn't make it.I honestly expected better from those eggs.
The incubator is still running, but no more pips. I'm leaving it alone for the night , but I think everything is done.
I have a few interesting observations:
1. I think I'm going to do more carton hatching. I really liked how those eggs didn't get rolled. I also experimented with little rings of paper towel roll. Those held the eggs steady fairly well with only bantam chicks, but when the big chicks started hatching they didn't stop the eggs from rolling.
2. Two eggs got rolled fairly hard and seemed to suffer from it. The last bantam to hatch was rapidly zipping when it was rolled. ( I know I was watching... what else would one do at 3 am?) After that I watched it's little beak trying to do more, but it was in an already open part and couldn't seem to reach the right spot. (I think the roll shifted the chick slightly.) I let it go about 8 hours. Finally I gave just a little help with that last bit of shell that needed to crack and it pushed itself out. The other chick died within a couple hours of being rolled and I'm not sure why. I was still "giving it time" so I hadn't done anything yet. I know others say the rolling doesn't hurt, but this is the second hatch where I've seen chicks suddenly stop progressing after a good roll.
3. My genetic mix may be more interesting than I thought. 6 of the 7 chicks that hatched from my big eggs (production reds) looked just as I expected, a dark buff color. The other one is a dark, dark reddish brown. Interestingly some of my bantam mutts are the same color! My chickens all free range, but the bantams seem to stick together as one flock and the reds have several little groups of their own. I've never obsevered them mixing, but those chicks make me think I have some crosses between the two groups. I'll try to post pictures tomorrow! I have quite a rainbow!!!
All in all I'm happy with the hatch and I've learned a lot too!