Man, what a smell! I went into see our babies today and had to hold my nose! The incubator and the hatched eggs were stinking out the whole room.
I moved all the chicks to the brooder box - which made a total of 23. The ones I popped in today are all pretty small and scraggly looking. I hope they all survive. I've cleaned out the incubator and chucked the hatched eggshells away, so hopefully the smell will be better by tomorrow. I've kept the eggs that didn't hatch and we'll open them this week (well those of us brave enough will open them) and see how far along they got before they died.
This week we'll need to start trying to identify all the different chicks, which will be tricky since all except one are yellow! Once we've done that we can start weighing and getting to know our new wee class mates.
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