Tilt and Changing my perspective
This summer, i got to spend a lot of time hatching chicks. SO much fun! But for some reason, i started having some formation anomalies in some of my chicks in every single hatch. In the beginning, i didn't have any place set up to keep any special needs, chicks, and i assumed it was an anomaly, and not a trend. So....i would do the wise farmer thing and um....return the deformed chicks to the earth, so to speak. Pretty much always, the deformed chicks would be "late hatchers." They would take longer to make it out of their shells than the main group, and all too often not make it, in spite of my attempts to help. In response to this pattern, i became very frustrated, instituting a policy that late hatchers would not be helped - or even allowed to try to finish hatching - once the main group was finished hatching and ready to go to market, remaining eggs, mid-hatch or otherwise, would be "cleaned up." This policy lasted about one hatch. My ch