Drama in the Bird House!

This isnt the Blog i was going to do today, I was going to do an update on Perdo and Eva the Conures.......and how they had their 1st ever clutch of eggs..... how i didnt think they would be any good as they are both only just a year old and Eva wasnt really brooding right.  They are supposed to brood from the second egg for about 22 days and only leave the nest box briefly to do bathroom stuff.... And how i had candled the eggs and they were all fertile and that despite my worries they were still developing.  Well a few days ago i moved 2 eggs and put them under Petal the Kakariki who was sitting on 11 infertile eggs.  She was fine with them but we had a cold night last night and today when i looked in the nest box she had buried all the eggs ....giving up on her clutch as she had been brooding them far longer than needed..... So panic i dug out the shavings and found the conure eggs...they were cold!! i took them in the house and started to warm them up. when i went back out i noticed Eva was still out of her nest box and checked her eggs and they were cold too....not quite as cold as the other 2.  I was really upset that they had got so close to hatching and were most likely all dead... I took them all in the house and Rich and i sat by the fire holding them in our hands to warm them.  we candled them and fond movement in 4 and veins and a definite chick in the other 2.  Rich took over the brooding while i set up the home made brooder.  Then massive excitement from rich as he hears one of them meeping inside the egg....!!  And then tapping and a little crack appear and a small crack in another.  The brooder got up to temperature and we put all but the 2 pipping eggs in and monitored the temperature.  After a couple of hours we decided to put them in as well and see what happened.

After an hour or so Rich said maybe we should have a look and he got 1 out... and it had cracked half way round the shell..... i grabbed my phone to try film it and we sat there by the fire and watched it hatch in Riches hands..... It was amazing..!!! The chick is now back in the brooder with the other eggs and meeping and wriggling about..... I hope he survives...!!!