thefoxling
Just about to hatch, 27/06/09
I stayed up with the egg until it managed to pierce the membrane at about 4a.m. The Rcom incubator is great but doesn't tell you the humidity so I put a bit of soaked sponge in with the egg as the membrane that was exposed was really white (dry) so I eyedropped a little bit of water on there so Napkin was able to poke a whole through. That was the extent of my interference though. I'm quite proud of my restaint. It's so difficult not to help them out.
I checked on the egg again at 6a.m. No more progress but was still alive. Came back down at 7a.m. and Napkin must have woken up very angry with the whole stuck in an egg situation and started busting out big time. Once he kicked off again, he was out within 15 minutes. Amazing.
Just about to hatch, 27/06/09
I stayed up with the egg until it managed to pierce the membrane at about 4a.m. The Rcom incubator is great but doesn't tell you the humidity so I put a bit of soaked sponge in with the egg as the membrane that was exposed was really white (dry) so I eyedropped a little bit of water on there so Napkin was able to poke a whole through. That was the extent of my interference though. I'm quite proud of my restaint. It's so difficult not to help them out.
I checked on the egg again at 6a.m. No more progress but was still alive. Came back down at 7a.m. and Napkin must have woken up very angry with the whole stuck in an egg situation and started busting out big time. Once he kicked off again, he was out within 15 minutes. Amazing.