Whew!!!

[keeperofthehearth]

It's very soft peeping and I can hardly stand the wait! I soooo want to check everything out but Tegan is a very nervous Dark Cornish so I am waiting patiently . . . not!

We have 4 blue EE eggs under her and two of hers (Dark cornish X with our EE pretty boy Trevor.)
I need to set up a broody pen for her now. I didn't want to move her fm her favoirte nesting basket until the peeps hatched. Now if she will only stay settled in her new digs when I move her.

This is the first time we've had a broody hatch
I just moved Tegan after I checked under her. One chick dry and peeping. One dead. Looks as if the egg stuck partly to it and it was crushed/smoothered.
One is just pipped and one egg looks pretty crushed. Should I take the hatched chick out & put it under a light?
I'm a bit afraid Tegan is going to crush these little ones. She's being kinda rough. That one egg looks as if it's been stepped on instead of just hatching. ADVISE PLS!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Should I just check on the hatch every hour or so?

 

[keeperofthehearth]

3 hatched, one pipped, one ?, one dead. I think I'm as stressed as Tegan.

 

[tazzy]

oh, good luck! how exciting and how sad that you lost one chick. I hope the others do well.

 

[keeperofthehearth]

5 little EE peeps this a.m. 3 pure EE's if you can call them that & two first generation EE X Dark Cornish.

Pic's hopefully in the next day or two.