To help or not to help....

[BerrytangleFarm]

Yes, this is addressed all the time, I know.....but....help or not???

Dry hatch in a Hovebator. Pip hours after putting it into the hatcher with steady temp and 65-70% humidity the whole time. Pipped just over 24 hours ago with a bigger hole but no zipping.

I can't decide, so you guys do it....


Help or not???

 

[mnferalkitty]

I don't help, I never have good results when i have are they chicken or duck eggs?

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

Chicken eggs. I know one died after I helped it, but usually they just turn out to be roos!

 

[mnferalkitty]

Are you in the July swap? I am!

I just don't help anymore because I hate culling chicks

and the ones I have helped end up with crazy legs or something goofy like that.

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

Are you in the July swap? I am!

I just don't help anymore because I hate culling chicks

and the ones I have helped end up with crazy legs or something goofy like that.

Yeah, there's that to consider, too...

Well, I figured I'd make sure it wasn't shrink-wrapped, mostly because, if it was, the hatcher could do that to the others going in over the next week. It wasn't, just hadn't absorbed all the blood. Thankfully, I could see that just by removing a little more shell and not making it bleed. I put it back to finish on its own, hopefully tomorrow. At least I now know the hatcher humidity isn't off.

And, yes, I'm in the July swap! Got 6 June swap eggs going in lockdown on Saturday.

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

Okay, Little Bob (the last egg we had from Bob, the rooster we sold) made his way out last night. He's peeping away and seems fine. Yeah!

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

Here's Little Bob --