I am in tears at the moment after we found poor baby chookie in the water container, drowned.
We set up the incubator a little differently this time as we were caught off guard last time with an early hatcher, but this time we were prepared and we fitted the floor to the incubator better, but the water container was open - we didn't even consider it a problem.
Jemma said this afternoon that she thought it might get into the water but I thought it was high enough that it couldn't. Silly me, it did cross my mind too but I thought no it wouldn't be able to get up over the top and then in there.
We have now put mesh over the top and this will never happen again. I am devestated as I watched this little one hatch and it was beautiful.
One of the other little blue eggs has hatched under frizz, which is good news, but no others yet. No more in the incubator have made a move. I hope this one wasn't my only one to hatch in the incubator and then I accidently killed it............................
So sad......................... :-(
They say with highs you get lows and the bigger the high, the bigger the low and I was on such a high from seeing that new life come into the world today and now, gone................ I feel extremely low right now and such guilt because I feel I should have known that it might get into the water.
Well, tomorrow is a new day and fingers crossed for some new little ones tomorrow........
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