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I don't need a video--my hygrometer-and-egg-sitter-on-er chirps, especially whenever we use the flashlight to see in better--with 3 people checking (my husband hasn't done more than glanced, as far as I know) that light's on fairly often
There was no progress on the zip, though a wing elbow was sticking out of the beginning end. So I carefully chipped a zip line to complete the circuit (it had gone about halfway), tore the membrane about another half inch, put some antibiotic ointment (no painkiller--the one I got for the big chickens and the dogs) on the now exposed membrane and put the egg back with the cap still on. The chick'll have to push out, still, but it should be easier. If it hasn't at least pushed out enough to get the cap off by the time I get home from work in 5 hours, I'll have to do some hard thinking. The membrane was clear when I chipped away the shell with my tweezers.
The new pip is a little bigger, though not enough to photograph well.
Frieda... I've got some worry on that end, this morning. I forgot that there's a leak above that nest box, and we had quite a storm last night. Everything in that nest box was soaked. (The other 2 were dry, of course, as is the pen
) Frieda squeezed out to eat and drink. I decided to try to move the eggs into the pen, and see if I could get Frieda to move there. Yes, I know, in the daylight. It worked about as well as you'd imagine. So I put some dry shavings in her nest box, and put the eggs back. Frieda's still out, an hour and a half later. I'm going to check again, in about half an hour--she was still preening, so maybe she's trying to get a bit drier before she gets back on the nest
If she does, I'm going to move her and whoever has hatched by then to the pen. I haven't decided yet if I'll give her her eggs along with the chicks, or candle the eggs and finish them in the incubator. They were pretty cold when I was moving them this morning
There was no progress on the zip, though a wing elbow was sticking out of the beginning end. So I carefully chipped a zip line to complete the circuit (it had gone about halfway), tore the membrane about another half inch, put some antibiotic ointment (no painkiller--the one I got for the big chickens and the dogs) on the now exposed membrane and put the egg back with the cap still on. The chick'll have to push out, still, but it should be easier. If it hasn't at least pushed out enough to get the cap off by the time I get home from work in 5 hours, I'll have to do some hard thinking. The membrane was clear when I chipped away the shell with my tweezers.
The new pip is a little bigger, though not enough to photograph well.
Frieda... I've got some worry on that end, this morning. I forgot that there's a leak above that nest box, and we had quite a storm last night. Everything in that nest box was soaked. (The other 2 were dry, of course, as is the pen
