OOOO, I love that everyone's babies are getting here. Thank you for sharing and do post pics if you want. I love it.
I was up of course repeatedly overnight checking on the babies.
The BCMS are hatching out black, blue and splash. I just helped out 2 stuck babies, but wanted to be really fast since this is officially day 21. But these guys had been pipped for 24 hours and the hole was getting bigger in the same area but not zipping. You could see the shellac effect happening as they started to get shrink-wrapped.
It let me top off the water and I sprayed in some mist, so humidity is back up fast. *Do not try this at home.* Most folks do not agree with this but I happen to believe that artifical incubation means humidity issues and helping because of humidity is ok for me.
The count will have to do until I start getting chicks out this afternoon/tonight, sorry. 28 chicks so far.
They are chirping away and sooooooooooo cute.
10/29 BCMs - 4 black, 1 splash, 5 blue, 2 pips (original 32: lost 2 eggs to dog accident, 1 to weeping)
10/12 barnevelders - (original 24: I tossed 12 clear eggs on day 14 so hopefully these are all good)
5/5 Mottled Java (original 6: tossed 1 on day 14 - clear)
2/2 Olive eggers
1/1 Ameraucana
0/6 lav/black orpingtons - 2 pips (original 7: tossed 1 clear on day 14)
0/2 lav/lav orpingtons - come on lavs!
more soon!
Congrats!
