Ask and you shall receiveNot all were in the photo op!
Hedemora and double silver-laced Barnevelder bantams (the striped ones)
They are so cute! Congratulations on a great hatch!
Catching up on this thread and totally fascinated with the banter on humidity levels, weighing eggs, meddling vs. benign neglect.
This is only my second hatching using the brinsea mini eco advance. It went so well the first time, I am barely thinking about it now. As for meddling? First hatch last year, I had one chick that got "stuck" and I ended helping that chick out of the shell. HE was beautiful, but he had bent wing which is probably why he couldn't finish his zip. He grew big and beautiful but did not survive the winter. pneumonia I think, I nursed him for weeks but ended up putting him down. Moral of the story? He was weak to begin with and I now believe that nature will take it's course. I will not do any helping this time around.
That said, I just removed the turner, topped off the resevoir and put the 'bator into lock down. I have 6 of the original 8 in there, one I am 90% certain is a quitter, one I am 50% sure is also a goner. Now I am on Pip watch and I will NOT interfere this time.
Hope you have a great hatch as well - let us know how it goes! I assisted one of the Ameraucana and am wondering if I shouldn't have, although it was the only surviving egg from a pricey half-dozen.. It was huge, and now seems to have trouble walking forward and only walks backwards with it's head up. (Star-gazing?) I'm making him take sips of sav-a-chick in case it is a vitamin deficiency. Once I can hatch my own eggs - NO MORE HELPING!
I had one more Wheaten Ameraucana hatch this morning. Looks lonely in the incubator all by itself. My total is 2 Orloff and 3 Ameraucana. Not what I was hoping for since I started with 20 Orloff and 9 Ameraucana eggs. But I knew shipped eggs were a gamble, and did the best I could on my end. (USPS is not kind to boxes, no matter how they are marked.)
