Test Incubation: Due to hatch 12/19 (including eggtopsies **graphic pictures**)

[Redhead Rae]

No more hatchlings yet, but this early bird is starting to perk up! I was a bit worried because it was resting splayed out on its stomach for a while.

 

[aart]

I was a bit worried because it was resting splayed out on its stomach for a while.

Pretty typical, hard work getting out of that shell.
Is this your first incubation?

 

[Redhead Rae]

Pretty typical, hard work getting out of that shell.
Is this your first incubation?

I've set eggs with broodies, but this is my first incubator hatch. It looks like I should at least have two!

 

[WVduckchick]

 

[Redhead Rae]

I wonder how many I'll have in the morning. I don't intend to check at all during the night. I'll check at least one more time before going to bed.

My 17 mo old milk drinker is sick and I only got 4 hours of sleep last night. So, I need all the sleep I can get.

 

[lazy gardener]

Hope your little one sleeps better tonight.

 

[TexasSam]

No more hatchlings yet, but this early bird is starting to perk up! I was a bit worried because it was resting splayed out on its stomach for a while.
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Yay a little fluffy butt

 

[Redhead Rae]

Hope your little one sleeps better tonight.

Me too! He usually wakes to nurse 3-4x a night but usually falls right back to sleep but whatever he has causes his nose to stuff up whe he lays down and that makes it hard for him to nurse back to sleep,

 

[Redhead Rae]

Poor little chick is lonely. I hope some of its siblings hatch soon. I'm trying to upload a video of it to YouTube, but it is taking forever. I started making kissy noises and it went crazy trying to get to me. I started talking to it after the video and it came up to the vent hole and was staring out at me with one eye through the vent hole.

 

[Redhead Rae]

I think the lonely hatchling has imprinted on me. I was checking the pipped egg to make sure that it could breathe and the hatched chick climbed right up into my hand, several times.

Sure is a cute little booger. Looks like this cross (New Hampshire over Dom and Dom crosses) are going to have a good deal more red in them than my Black Cochin/Dom crosses. This little one already has a good deal of red in its face. I know I shouldn't take it out before it fully fluffed, but I had to get a picture of the cutie.

And I have high hopes for #11 being hatched by morning. If you look carefully you can see the beak right in the opening.