I'm typing this running on about 3 hours a sleep a night the last few days. This is a great event, but I'd like to say a few words of caution about hatching eggs.
One of new arrivals are in the 3rd picture., 1st picture is the exhausting log of feedings and ATTEMPTED feeding, (3rd day) I FINALLY have them eating and up to strength. Middle picture is of the babies stuffed (I cannot believe it is 3:30 am), and very happy. I have to go to bed or I will fall asleeped on the floor.
3rd picture is an example of the daily log I took to keep track of who was eating and who was not.
The pictures look great, but the reality is that incubator hatched babies are frail and weak. You basically have to live every second staring at them and when they open their mouths you FEED and hope
they dont get tired and fall back off to sleep before you have a chance to keep them from starving later 15-20 minutes. This will be the first time I can sleep for a few hours without worry. I'm going to pass out now. Night y'all.
If you look at the log, you will see day TWO (at this point Im alreadly tired), baby on the right column of the logsheet will NOT eat until around 10 am. I almost lost him. I look at the numbers and I was feeding or "attemping" feedings about an average of every 20 minutes. Many of the hours of the first day and 1/2 was constantly wiping pedialyte around their beaks to keep them from dying.
Thankfully on day 3 they are hungry, happily begging. But it took two solid days to even get them to beg!
So as you can see in the last picture, they are fat happy stuffed babies, but people before you handfeed, please consider the comittement .
