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[ChickenCanoe]

.... We didnt get much of a chance to meet areola...

again

Yeah. And all the king's horses and all the king's men can't put Humpty together again.


But if it makes you feel better, it may be that the egg actually was on day 24, and the chick had something wrong with it that it didn't hatch on time.

Thanks for that.

Oh yes. I always do eggtopsies. I had one broody steal an egg apparently and I didn't realize it. I usually mark them. It was about 2 days behind the others. I cried and cried.

It's quite disturbing to use a machete to open an eggtopsy and see it squirming.

 

[Peep_Show]

I've done it again and I feel horrible.

I had an egg in the hatcher that I thought was 24 days old so took it to the compost pile to open and see what was up. It had a live chick in it.
Has that happened to anyone else?

Yes, I had something similar happen when I opened up an egg the first week that I thought was a dud. It wasn't. I felt like I had kicked a puppy (by accident, of course)

 

[Peep_Show]

Chickisoup:

HOORAY!!!

There is a Little Dog God who listens.... (Well, and a big people God, too)

 

[ChickenCanoe]

quite disturbing

 

[Peep_Show]

all the way at the bottom u can switch from mobile to desktop. Its a whole new world on desktop

Or click on the person's name on one of their posts and a menu drops down

 

[Bunnylady]

@chickisoup

 

[ozexpat]

fantastic news Chiki!!!

 

[Peep_Show]

Grrrrr..... I went out on (non-BYC on-line auction site) and coordinated my dream flock of eggs. Four different breeds, four different sellers; the same delivery date (8/8). One came early (yesterday), one came on time (today), and one is across town in the main postal center and so will be here tomorrow....and I inquired of the fourth seller about a tracking number. To which they replied (today) that the hens went broody and they should all lay tomorrow or the next day, and so they hadn't even been packed, much less sent!

Why post you have something for sale and a delivery date when you haven't the ability to provide neither?

Thank goodness for the other three Sellers as I've been calibrating my incubator all week. The added bonus to this is the three that did deliver are all sex-linked, so dream flock will have no waiting for grow out.

 

[bamadude]

fantastic news Chiki!!!

x2

 

[vehve]

@chickisoup Yay! Congrats. You never said if they biopsied the mass on Angel's head, could it just have been some sort of allergic reaction to something? Perhaps a snake or insect bite? Anyway, I'm glad she's okay. And good news about your condition too. They say bad things come in three, but why couldn't the same go for good things too? Hopefully your husband's brother's surgery will be a breeze too.

@ChickenCanoe I agree with the birth defect idea, if it hadn't even pipped internally at that that point, I doubt it wouldn't. There's a reason for that usually. Most people don't know this, but with human pregnancies, only about 50% make it. Most end even before the person carrying the fetus is aware of it. Nature has a pretty good system for working out what gene combinations don't work. And better to lose a chick early, than to have it waste away later due to a birth defect.

The eggtopsies can be a bit nasty. We did one on a day 14 quitter. It was fascinating and disturbing at the same time. I won't post pictures, but the head was mostly fully formed eye, and the body was still really tiny. It's weird how a fetus develops. Another interesting thing is comparing the fetuses of different species. It's really tough to tell them apart during the first half of development.