To assist or not to assist?

[Miss Lydia]

Congrats they are adorable!!

 

[Pyxis]

The rest are still absorbing. This hatch is going to take quite a while, some aren’t even ready for an internal pip. Still 6 more healthy eggs that haven’t hatched yet... but I’m just glad to have at least 3 little babies!

Yay, three babies out!

 

[Featheredfluffs]

Yay, three babies out!

And they are so sweet and already imprinted (needing a little help out of the shell, the first thing they saw was me). Two beautiful blues and one chocolate, and it seems like another chocolate is on its way out!!! I’m just so glad everything’s gone okay. Praying it stays that way

 

[Miss Lydia]

You have some good help!

 

[Featheredfluffs]

You have some good help!

No kidding! I don’t know how I could of gotten through this without the help!!!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Congratulations on the babies!
I agree.. you have the best help around!

 

[Chloe+chickens=LOVE]

How is the baby so far

 

[Featheredfluffs]

How is the baby so far

Two out of four (they just keep coming!) are perfectly normal. Two seem to have a little bit of yolk that was not absorbed, Pretzel (the first one) is on day three now and doing fine, the other just hatched sometime last night. The new one is who I’m worried about, although he only had a tiny bit of yolk left when he decided it was time to hatch out, there was definitely an open cut and since I wasn’t there when he hatched I wasn’t able to sterilize it. I did the best I could when I saw it, but he was exposed for an indefinite amount of time in an incubator that at this point is not the cleanest (I’ve removed all shell debris and other stuff of course, it’s just been through a lot with all the ducklings!)

Hopefully he does fine

And because there is never enough duckling photos... here is a picture of Pretzel, my favorite. Is there anything better than curling up in a bathrobe with a happy little duckling?

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

He's adorable! Congratulations!

 

[SilksterTN]

Yay for ducklings!! Great job!