Rural Gardening: More babies are hatching!, 1 by smedgekles

smedgekles wrote:
Our other Barred Rock hatched 3 babies yesterday and has 2 more eggs that so far haven't done anything. And, one of our Silkies hatched 1 baby yesterday and has 2 eggs that so far haven't done anything. We have another Silke on 3 eggs due to hatch this weekend and another Silkie went broody yesterday and is sitting on 2 eggs. This hatching may never end.

This picture is of one of Kj's babies. I had to help it a little. I went to check on her and discovered she was off the nest and this baby had evidentally been trying to hatch and the egg got somewhat squashed. Not sure if she or another hen did the squashing.. Another egg had a pip hole in it. This baby was breathing and peeping a little. The membrane was dried and stuck to it, the shell was all broken up. I took the egg and baby and picked off some broken shell then sprayed very warm water on the suck membrane till it came loose. The baby was too cool and I was worried it might die because it was cold. The bottom part and back part of the shell was still on it though broken up and it still has the umbilculous attached so I put the baby under the mom after my son put her back on the nest and hoped for the best. Later we checked and it was completely out of the shell. What a relief.