Second chick

CHICKS

Oh My Goodness... that was so fun. My sweet little chicks came a day early. I had friends here from Kelowna and her 2 little girls got to eggs hatching for the first time. as well as my friend Adrianna. We were standing over the incubator from the first pip! And then it took forever for the little guy to do anything else. So we waited and checked back every 1/2 hour... lol and then the little one stared it's little pecking and in about 15 minutes was out of his shell! Amazing. He is little black chick and very cute. The other little chick was a whole different story. He pipped about an hour after the first guy then nothing.. all day. So we lifted a piece of the shell to see if we could see anything. All we could see was a tiny beak and some tiny chirping. We left it for another 4 hours. finally at midnight I decided he couldn't get out on his own.... After way to much wine and hot tubbing we made the decision to hatch this chick. *sigh* so tiny piece of shell at a time very carefully I picked it's shell of it's head. well the membrane had stuck to the chick and it was dry. Very dry. He was very much in trouble. So my darling hubby to the rescue came with some warm water and i stare to rub tiny drops of water onto to membrane. the little guy stared to struggle then quit. So I got his membrane very wet and tried to help him tear it. I was so scared I was doing something very wrong. I was so upset that there was a tiny bit of blood when i tried to tear the membrane. but it was all good. I got his/her? head out and then I put him downt o work the rest of the way out himself. And he did!!!!! and then just slept forever. I almost didn't go to bed I was so worried. Int he morning we had one very fluffy chick!!! The other guy who got out on his own was not fluffy... I guess he had some yolk or something on him and he dried all crusty. Yuck. So I gave him a warm water bath and left him in the incubator to dry! And now we have to very cute black fluffy chicks!!!! lol So now I will post some pictures for you guys!