I'll do my best to give you the short version:
I set nine liege fighter eggs from GFF under a broody hen 31 days ago on March 1st, and 3 in an incubator. By day 20 I was down to 9 eggs, all now under the hen. On day 21, 8 healthy chicks hatched. I moved the remaining egg to the incubator on day 22 and candled it, revealing an underdeveloped embryo that was moving and definitely alive. It looked more like a day 12-14 embryo though.
I have been sitting on my hands for 10 days now, waiting for this egg. Temperature 99.5 F in a brinsea mini eco, humidity 65-70%. I candle daily and it's been growing, the air cell drew down a few days ago, and I can see the embryo moving around. I asked my partner to verify the movement to make sure I wasn't just seeing things in a chick-induced delirium. I wasn't, apparently.
GFF doesn't carry any other poultry species to my knowledge but I've been wondering if a muscovy egg somehow landed in my shipment. I have no other explanations. I never saw the broody kick out an egg, and the incubator did fine by it's other occupants. The chick has been sticking limbs into the air cell membrane, but I'm not sure it qualifies as internally pipped.
Thoughts? Should I do anything? Keep sitting on my hands? GFF has not commented yet, though I sent them an email.
Also, I realize it's April Fools Day, but this is only a prank played by nature, not by me.
I set nine liege fighter eggs from GFF under a broody hen 31 days ago on March 1st, and 3 in an incubator. By day 20 I was down to 9 eggs, all now under the hen. On day 21, 8 healthy chicks hatched. I moved the remaining egg to the incubator on day 22 and candled it, revealing an underdeveloped embryo that was moving and definitely alive. It looked more like a day 12-14 embryo though.
I have been sitting on my hands for 10 days now, waiting for this egg. Temperature 99.5 F in a brinsea mini eco, humidity 65-70%. I candle daily and it's been growing, the air cell drew down a few days ago, and I can see the embryo moving around. I asked my partner to verify the movement to make sure I wasn't just seeing things in a chick-induced delirium. I wasn't, apparently.
GFF doesn't carry any other poultry species to my knowledge but I've been wondering if a muscovy egg somehow landed in my shipment. I have no other explanations. I never saw the broody kick out an egg, and the incubator did fine by it's other occupants. The chick has been sticking limbs into the air cell membrane, but I'm not sure it qualifies as internally pipped.
Thoughts? Should I do anything? Keep sitting on my hands? GFF has not commented yet, though I sent them an email.
Also, I realize it's April Fools Day, but this is only a prank played by nature, not by me.