Cuties!Oooh, nice work! You might be right, they don't tend to see super well in the dark so having some light in there probably helps!
And Dr. Girlfriend is adorable with her babies!
I've got 6 newbies as of this morning! All banded and moved to the brooder to start gaining their land legs.
Baby number 7, the one I was concerned was malpositioned, ended up quitting overnight. I went ahead and opened the end of the egg up just to see if my suspicions were correct and no, it looked like the little one was positioned fine. That egg was a bit skinnier than the rest of them, so all I can figure is that it didn't have the room to move like it needed to and couldn't externally pip. Wish I had put an air hole in it last night, but I was pretty sure at the time that that wouldn't do anything to help. Oh, well.
Anyway, here are our newbies! I ended up with 4 Splash and 2 Blue.
These are the two that hatched yesterday; I popped them out of the incubator last night and moved them to the brooder for the night:
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Not long after I moved them, this little one hatched. Seconds old and already in its rebellious stage with that hairdo
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Here are all four that hatched last night. Ugh, such cuties!!
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We're all moved to the baby brooder now to start getting our legs underneath us.
I helped one of Dr.s chicks out of the shell because she kept getting up for the other four! We lost one in the garage. It's why I moved her into the brooder. Had one that partially hatched and quit as well.
Also checked the ladies out in Dustys pen. Have 8 maybe 9 broodies out there. Every one of them are sharing a nest! The two silver Phoenix hens group started hatching yesterday and I can confirm Dusty is Duck wing. Almost all the babies are silver chipmunk striped with just a few being gold and a few black.