Last night check the eggs under Lark because they are hatching

Notice a poop covered egg and go "well thats not developed probably"

Go to throw egg away but it peeps. "Uh OH!"

Proceed to candle poop egg and realize the baby is internally shrink wrapped.

Clean and sanitize poop egg so it doesnt give the baby an umbilical infection

Open egg and see the membranes are extremely dry. "Ok I can go ahead and open it"

Cut open the membrane by the babies beak so it can breathe and maybe hatch on its own

INSTANT blood. Stop immediately and dry the blood with kwikstop and put the egg back under mom to absorb the blood and hatch on their own.

Check this morning before work. Lark has kicked the egg away from her far away and the baby is cold and hasn't progressed. I think its dead.

I go to remove the egg and the baby immediately starts crying out. "OH SHIT"

Warm the egg up by the heater and start peeling away the membrane. If the baby doesnt hatch now it will die regardless.

The membranes are dry so no blood and the chick is vocal and wiggly.

Chick hatches on its own in my hand but wait tons of blood is pooling in my hand. The umbilical is completely open and pouring blood despite the chicken having absorbed all the yolk.

Immediately get a damp tissue to wrap the now coated in flour, blood, and kwikstop chick to stop the bleeding.

I stop the bleeding and both me and the chick are exhausted. I wait an hour or two to make sure the umbilical is closed then I give it back to Lark so it can fluff up.

Now its in the fates hands.

Me @ the incubator rn

When we put the girls to bed tonight we heard very faint peeping coming from underneath Limu!

While we were in Ohio last weekend, we picked up 50 buckeye hatching eggs! So I want to do a fifty fifty hatchalong! Where people pick an egg (identified by two letter postal code instead of numbers) and give it a name (usually based on a theme) and root for their eggs to hatch.

AL-

AK- Salmon byc user TwoCrows

AZ- Sedona byc user JAMarlow

AR-

CA- Coloma byc user tviss711

CO-

CT-

DE-

FL- Cypress @weeberc3

GA- Peach byc user tlcmurphy

HI-

ID-

IL-

IN- Lafayette byc user Cheekychook12

IA-

KS-

KY-

LA- Paradise byc user Evadig

ME-

MD- JimmiSook byc user MROO

MA-

MI- Petoskey byc user talkinboutchickens

MN- Jasper @miirshroom

MS-

MO-

MT-

NE-

NV-

NH- Stephanie byc user Dominique King

NJ- Violet byc user tlcmurphy

NM- Bloomfield byc user HonkABC

NY-

NC-

ND-

OH- Bucks byc user Noraaaaa

OK- Indy (Indian Blanket) byc user horselover1999

OR- Dallas byc user Mill Chick

PA-

RI-

SC-

SD- Prairie Rose byc user MGG

TN-

TX- Bluebonnet byc user GreenJay

UT- Deseret byc user Slothinc

VT-

VA-

WA- Cedar byc user User690263

WI- Cheese byc user oldhenlikesdogs

WV- Montani byc user Evadig

And the power went out.