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 Post subject: Re: Ness and her babes!
PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:30 pm 
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Congratulations to Ness! congt334

Those chicks are adorable please post some more photos. [smilie=a_content.gif]

Can't help with how long to leave the last egg though. Sorry.

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I think all mothers whether skinned, feathered, furred or scaled have an innate instinct as to whether or not their babes are viable or not.

If the mother is still taking an interest in the unhatched egg perhaps leave it another day, you have nothing to loose. I think chooks can count and from what I have read they know by the weight of the egg under them whether or not that egg is developing.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 7:13 pm 
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Thanks! :-D I think they are pretty cute, but I could be a little biased being the Surrogate Grandy :lol:

Well, this arvy has been quite busy. I was pretty much forced to put them in the Chicken tractor as, from what I can tell, Ness must have hopped out to have a no.2. and when I went down for a check, Ness and all 4 chicks were on the towel I had been using to co-nest with them over the past day and night. Ness had started nesting with the towel!! AND was actually doing a pretty good job too!

It didn't take much to organise as everything was ready to go, but with the chicks crying out for Mumma and Ness all a bit flustered it was heart racing stuff!

All worked out well, so far at least, as I was able to check the last egg which doesn't look good?? And with the rest of the daylight hours, have ironed out a few minor issues.

Gee it's going to be cold tonight up here....7 degrees they are predicting, Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

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Hmmm, that's interesting HH. I was just thinking to myself it probably wouldn't do any damage, would it? Benefiscents and non-malfeasance and all that??

I think if what you say is right then it clearly couldn't hurt, over night at least? I can only guess that the eggs were from the same day? Would that make a difference?

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 7:25 pm 
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Gorgeous family, Cass,

Personally another night with the unhatched egg wouldn't hurt, you don't know when it was fertilised in correlation to the others and I have NO idea what I am writing about, but, people have told me this in regards to late hatches, and I am very naive and gullible, but that's just me...Sometimes if they don't make it out they were never meant to be.

Hope some one else with much more experience can direct you.

Rejoice in the new lives, their mother and especially their Grandy who made it all possible a_bravo.gif

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Naaaw than657 Warm Fuzzies all round :-D

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Ok.

Ness and the Acacia Crew coped last night in their new abode despite the cold.

This morning they have hopped out of the nesting box, (literally a 'box' completely sheltered in the tractor, under a corro lean to, wrapped in tarps....Rustic! Again I think going by the whopping great poo in the wood shavings, due to Ness's toileting requirements, they've all followed her out. They have been scratching about then re heating under Mumma. This of course means that the last egg has been abandoned :( ....which is ok I guess, because it means she is tending her young.

Curiosity, in the name of learning, got the better of me and I had a look in the unhatched egg. To my surprise (thankfully!) it was not what I was expecting.

It was filled with a yellowy-white fluid. So I wonder what this means? Any ideas?? Was the egg not fertilised? or if it was, not incubated properly??? Would love to hear what actually happened there!

Very pleased with the overall outcome for Ness, so I guess the journey so far has been a fruitful OR chookful one! Many thanks again.
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Hi, Cass wave.gif ,

Adorable babes! So cute!

Did you by chance take a photo of the content of the unhatched egg? If so please post it as someone maybe be able to give you a post mortem on the egg.

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Sorry, that I can't enlighten you about your unhatched egg, maybe it was never meant to be. Possibly had some sort of genetic defect and didn't develop? Nature's way and the survival of the fittest?

The chicks are gorgeous! Keep the photos of Ness and the Acacia Crew coming.

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