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......opened our unhatched egg.
We had three unhatched, two eggs were cold but one was surprisingly warm and candling showed it was full of chick. As Morag had taken her five babies out to eat, we decided to bin the two eggs we knew weren't viable and pip the Marans egg.
Bad idea. The chick was alive but had no skull or upper beak. DD has bravely dispatched the poor thing. Felt really bad when it cheeped at us when the air got to it.
I so wish we hadn't looked
but I guess it wouldn't have been a slow death as it couldn't pip with no beak.
Jules
We had three unhatched, two eggs were cold but one was surprisingly warm and candling showed it was full of chick. As Morag had taken her five babies out to eat, we decided to bin the two eggs we knew weren't viable and pip the Marans egg.
Bad idea. The chick was alive but had no skull or upper beak. DD has bravely dispatched the poor thing. Felt really bad when it cheeped at us when the air got to it.
I so wish we hadn't looked
but I guess it wouldn't have been a slow death as it couldn't pip with no beak.Jules
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