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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Please put back up the link to your pics.  Thanks ......bobford


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--- On Mon, 11/24/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [Homestead] DAY 21 Update
> To: "Homestead List" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 9:34 AM
> This morning, I have 16 chicks alive and dry.  Mr. Firstborn
> is still
> hanging in there, but still appears weaker than the others.
> His yolk
> sack is now gone, having mostly dried to his hind quarters,
> but there
> was some reabsorption. If he survives a few more hours, I
> will try to
> clean him up, but I want to make sure his navel has closed
> first. I
> placed him with the other chicks for the pictures, but he
> is separated
> now.  You can see him at about 7:00 in the picture with all
> yellow chicks.
> I still have cracked eggs and pipping chicks in the
> incubator.
> 
> I candled these eggs at 10 days and marked them as I saw
> them.  I put a
> check on the eggs that looked good(25), an X on the eggs
> that did not
> seem fertilized(2), and a ? on an egg(1) that I was unsure
> about.  There
> is also an egg with the phrase '2 days' on it
> because it was placed in
> the incubator 2 days late.  I originally had an egg in that
> slot, but a
> friend noticed a crack in the egg on the second day, so we
> replaced the
> egg.  A chick has emerged from the question mark egg, and
> since he/she
> is a definitely different looking, I have named him/her Q
> for
> questioning.<g>
> Q is black with white wing tips and has a very small white
> dot on the
> top of his head.  Q may be the cutest chick of the hatch,
> at least so
> far.  I cannot see any sign that the two X eggs will hatch,
> but I am
> hoping to be wrong. I am not looking forward to removing
> them from the
> incubator. The 2 day egg is not cracked yet.
> Still waiting...
> 
> Bev
> 
> 
> -- 
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> Anger leads to
> hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda
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