What to do on hatch day

[GoldenChooks]

3/16 so far - and one isnt doing so good. They all hatched today - i had so much trouble with my incubator. Ive already gotten my lecture about how I shouldnt bring ''sickly'' or ''malformed'' chickens to life - as if it was my intention - anyway, 2 seem perfectly healthy, the other seems to have a swollen abdomen, which im trying to get answers as to whether or not theres something I should be doing, but no responses. So much stress goes into this!!! I feel like I just bloody hatched out of an egg lol.

I don't know who would lecture a person about something like that, it's not like you can avoid it or predict that a chick is not doing well...

 

[Clucking Lovely]

Thanks, it was a bit of a traumatizing experience for me, we did this little experiment with our 6 year old son, we were expecting far better results, but, we are quite happy with the 3 that survived.

I'll take some pictures tonight, but my son has named them Popcorn, Nugget and Shelley... Shelley still has little pieces of egg shell stuck to her lol, I guess im going to need to help her with that. Shes so cute, the youngest/smallest of them all, and she tries to stand up super tall to be as big as the others.

 

[GoldenChooks]

Thanks, it was a bit of a traumatizing experience for me, we did this little experiment with our 6 year old son, we were expecting far better results, but, we are quite happy with the 3 that survived.

I'll take some pictures tonight, but my son has named them Popcorn, Nugget and Shelley... Shelley still has little pieces of egg shell stuck to her lol, I guess im going to need to help her with that. Shes so cute, the youngest/smallest of them all, and she tries to stand up super tall to be as big as the others.

They sound adorable Dont give up, hatching for the first time is hard, you'll get the hang of it and get good hatches soon