i debated about what to post about today, and since so much has been happening lately in chicken-ville, i certainly have a lot of experiences i could write about. and then i realized how worn out i am from constantly checking on the chicks (although i know they should be fine without my constant vigilance)!
baby #1, drying and looking fluffier!
i have so many topic ideas for future posts about my experience with the hatching eggs and the new baby chicks, and we are only on day 4 for one of the babies and day 2 or 3 for most of them! some future posts that i will be writing about the great (and tiring) time we’ve had:
- the variation in hatch times and circumstances (chickens being born are working on their own schedule just like humans are). usually, you just need to leave them alone, and let them do their thing like with a natural human labor, even if you think otherwise at first.
- the loss of one of our chicks that was born with some of the yolk sac unabsorbed.
- the intervention i used yesterday to get a chick out of its shell who was stuck (and had been stuck for over 36 hours)
- what the “afterbirth” and broken shells are like
- floating the final two, unpipped eggs to see if babies are possibly alive inside
for today i’ll leave you with this 10 minute video that shows the best part of the hatching process. this is the video of our first chick being born!
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