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He really is gorgeous! Amazing that he made it out okay!! How many others did you hatch in that batch of eggs? update when you have a name for him!!!!!

This happened to one of mine (coincidentally the first egg I'd ever hatched!) But she was okay just took about 31 hours from 'pip to zip' she is called pumpkin https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/moving-egg-with-crack-instead-of-pip-hatch-day.1570502/ The thread with what happens with mine

How did the hatch go in the end?

Hello! This is what they look like now!!!! Pumpkin: Chickpea: Today is their 7 month birthday

BABIES!!!!

When your chicken didn't quite understand what you said: The chicken- Huh? Nora: D.O.B- 9.7.2023

can i choose hope and chiilie as my other 2 quit :hit

Hmm, Tilly please then!

Penny and Love bird please!

can I choose Aurora and Comet please!

She is adorable!! This is Pumpkin!

A few tries later we successfully hatched 8 babas between 2 mamas!!! Mama #1 incubated pip and squeak and Mama #2 hatched the 6 others who are still unnamed. We had no idea that Mama #2 was sitting on eggs at all until her ducklings appeared in the poultry brooder pen with Mama #1 and she was...

Today! :love Mama #1 with all eight babas while Mama #2 is resting at the back!

When there was only 2... When there was 8...

A few tries later we finally got a couple ducklings last wednesday! They are called Pip and Squeak, but mysteriously the next day there were 8 in the pen! and another duck was trying to get in, it's still a mystery but what we think happened was that the other duck was sitting on eggs the whole...