Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

More eggs! I have a house wren who has nested in the eaves of my coop. Apparently it is a good nursery, I was looking for the cardinals who usually nest there and found her nest instead. They've even got quail beat in incubation time, 13 days. Tiniest eggs I've ever seen, I'll get a pic later, and of the babies when they hatch of course.
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My first baby toulouse hatched out perfect at 11:45am, all by himself!


And here's my african baby in his little brooder pen... 10 hours after hatching:


My next toulouse baby has commenced zipping (even though half the shell is off). The final toulouse baby is resting and gearing up for zipping.

I think africans are about the cutest goslings there are.
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Teeny egg. Would take about 10 dozen to make an omelet I think.

Momma, Aunt, and babies. Other silkie has given up. This one is determined to help raise the chicks.
 
Newflash! Toulouse #2 is hatched out! Poor thing tried to zip but got stuck halfway around in membrane on its beak. So I helped him out. Then he couldn't push out... so I chipped away a little more from him. Then, he was stuck on his lower back, so I made him stay in long enough to moisten everything out... then, he hatched all by himself.

3 hatched.... 1 to go!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Newflash! Toulouse #2 is hatched out! Poor thing tried to zip but got stuck halfway around in membrane on its beak. So I helped him out. Then he couldn't push out... so I chipped away a little more from him. Then, he was stuck on his lower back, so I made him stay in long enough to moisten everything out... then, he hatched all by himself.

3 hatched.... 1 to go!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoohoo!!!! Your babies are so cute!!
 
Wow... baby #4 (my 219gram toulouse) did not want to be left behind.... he's out with only a teeny bit of help from me. And he is HUGE!!

It's done!
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Thank you DG!! Wait until you see these last two toulouse babies... they make the african look like a duckling.
 

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