02/21/2023
Ok, black chick saga time. No name yet, we will cross that bridge later 😁
This little gal (I’m speaking positively, I don’t know the gender of this chick) had the cards stacked against her from the start and it went downhill from there:
*Her egg was one of the smaller ones in the shipment
*She was a shipped egg
*Her egg was CRACKED
*I mended the egg with wax, but it was my first time ever trying it and it was thick
*Hatching humidity was off- my first winter hatch and it required a different approach! Live and learn.
*The wax and humidity combined meant that I had to assist hatching or she would have died. Even after scraping off the wax she couldn’t push the egg fully open
*Because of that her body didn’t want to unroll once she had been released from her egg.
A little physical therapy, a little splinting and she’s up and running with her hatchmates. She’s still a bit smaller than the rest, but some good food, water and heat and she’ll catch right up 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Better pictures to come! She spends most of her time under the brooder plate and is hard to capture on film because of her color