IcyWolf
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- Jul 5, 2011
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- ~Alexandrine Parakeet~2 Red Lored Amazons~Blue Fronted Amazon~Black capped conure~4 Green Cheeks~4 Parrotlets~2 lineolated parakeets~9 American budgies~9 English budgies~ And lots of babies :)
I wasn't going to post this but I know many of you have first time clutches so I thought it may be of help to someone. As most of you know, we have a clutch of six eggs at the moment, they were laid, 1/29,1/30,2/1,2/3,2/5, and 2/7. Baby one hatched at day 19, baby two hatched at day 18 and about 20 hours(so pretty close to day 19), and baby three also hatched on day 19. Given this, I expected egg four to hatch on day 19 as well, which would have been 2/22(two days ago). Well, we just had baby 4 hatch today which either means that egg four hatched on day 21 or this is actually egg five and it hatched on day 19. Ugh, I'm really wishing now that I had marked the eggs with numbers. Is it possible that egg 4 is just taking longer to hatch because momma has been spending more time feeding the first 3 babies and less time sitting on the eggs? Or is it more likely that egg 4 just won't hatch and this is egg five? I guess there's really no way to know other than to just wait, and even then I really won't know for sure which egg he came out of.
Either way, I'm just happy that so far 4 of 6 have hatched and are all healthy but in the future, I will be marking the eggs so I don't have this confusion and for those of you that have eggs now, or will soon, I can highly suggest that you mark them to avoid this kind of confusion. Of course, always be sure that your hands are VERY clean before you handle any eggs and be sure to use either a pencil(may rub off) or a felt tip pen.
Here's a picture of the four of them. The newest baby is so tiny, his little body is about the size of the others' heads! I looked in today to find three big heads and one tiny little body lol
Either way, I'm just happy that so far 4 of 6 have hatched and are all healthy but in the future, I will be marking the eggs so I don't have this confusion and for those of you that have eggs now, or will soon, I can highly suggest that you mark them to avoid this kind of confusion. Of course, always be sure that your hands are VERY clean before you handle any eggs and be sure to use either a pencil(may rub off) or a felt tip pen.
Here's a picture of the four of them. The newest baby is so tiny, his little body is about the size of the others' heads! I looked in today to find three big heads and one tiny little body lol