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post #9401 of 11360
4/6/12 at 5:55am

14 of the 20 due-to-hatch-Thursday eggs have hatched, and I am hearing peeps from from of the Easter Hatch eggs!  Maybe I will have an Easter chick sometime today. big_smile.png

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post #9402 of 11360
4/6/12 at 5:58am
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Originally Posted by annabananaandfamily View Post

 

Now, can someone explain pipping, peeping, zipping etc.....I feel like you are all speaking a foreign language!!



Pip: first breakthrough of the shell. They can sit like this for HOURS without progressing and that's normal:

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Zipping is where the chick starts scooting around the inside of the shell and breaking it open in a line like a zipper:

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Then they sit for a while and rest, and then push with their feet until they're out. Then they're hatched!

A lonely blue girl guards the riverbed, she shakes her brown torch at the tide...

 

 

 

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A lonely blue girl guards the riverbed, she shakes her brown torch at the tide...

 

 

 

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post #9403 of 11360
4/6/12 at 6:00am

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Originally Posted by annabananaandfamily View Post

 

Now, can someone explain pipping, peeping, zipping etc.....I feel like you are all speaking a foreign language!!



Pip: first breakthrough of the shell. They can sit like this for HOURS without progressing and that's normal:

 

 

Zipping is where the chick starts scooting around the inside of the shell and breaking it open in a line like a zipper:

 

 

 

 

Then they sit for a while and rest, and then push with their feet until they're out. Then they're hatched!


PERFECT series there, SCG ! !  Love it!

 

 

 

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post #9404 of 11360
4/6/12 at 6:07am
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Originally Posted by superchemicalgirl View Post



Pip: first breakthrough of the shell. They can sit like this for HOURS without progressing and that's normal:

062.jpg

 

Zipping is where the chick starts scooting around the inside of the shell and breaking it open in a line like a zipper:

063.jpg

064.jpg

065.jpg

066.jpg

067.jpg

073.jpg

075.jpg

 

Then they sit for a while and rest, and then push with their feet until they're out. Then they're hatched!



THANK YOU! So amazing! Can't wait to see it for the first time and for the kids to get to see it too!!!

 

 

 

 

Ooooh! SCG, I was heading to TSC in Windham yesterday and was driving behind a car with a bumper sticker that just said SCG. Couldnt figure out the meaning cause all I could think was "Hey! Shes on BYC!"

Anna, momma to 4 girls, 2 dogs (gsd and a newfie), a cratchety old lovebird, a sugarglider, and a soon to be expanding flock of chickens. And wife to one amazing man!

 

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Anna, momma to 4 girls, 2 dogs (gsd and a newfie), a cratchety old lovebird, a sugarglider, and a soon to be expanding flock of chickens. And wife to one amazing man!

 

tastefullysimple.com/web/akeeney

 

http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/annabananaandfamilys-swap-page my swap page

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post #9405 of 11360
4/6/12 at 6:11am
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THANK YOU! So amazing! Can't wait to see it for the first time and for the kids to get to see it too!!!

 

 

 

 

Ooooh! SCG, I was heading to TSC in Windham yesterday and was driving behind a car with a bumper sticker that just said SCG. Couldnt figure out the meaning cause all I could think was "Hey! Shes on BYC!"


I'll need to get one! But this is me (seriously):

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A lonely blue girl guards the riverbed, she shakes her brown torch at the tide...

 

 

 

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A lonely blue girl guards the riverbed, she shakes her brown torch at the tide...

 

 

 

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post #9406 of 11360
4/6/12 at 6:11am
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27 out and now 3 pips... 2 Icelandics and the last sulmtaler.

 

I just wonder WHY did two of Peachicks eggs hatch so early in the Brinsea (along with a goodly number of Icelandics... which I expect to hatch early) and all of the others remain.??

Keeper of 26 hens,  4 PW Leghorns, 1 leghorn mix, 1 FBCMarans, 1 Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 2 Mama Olive Eggers w/ 15 chicks each, 1 EE, a Barred Rock, a RIR, a CQ, 1 Delaware, 1 Black Star, a Splash Ameraucana, 3 W/BW Ameraucana pullets, 5 polish, 2 Welsummers and 41 juvies of various breeds. YIKES!  Time to SELL some chickens!

 

 

"With God, ALL things are possible."

                 ...

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Keeper of 26 hens,  4 PW Leghorns, 1 leghorn mix, 1 FBCMarans, 1 Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 2 Mama Olive Eggers w/ 15 chicks each, 1 EE, a Barred Rock, a RIR, a CQ, 1 Delaware, 1 Black Star, a Splash Ameraucana, 3 W/BW Ameraucana pullets, 5 polish, 2 Welsummers and 41 juvies of various breeds. YIKES!  Time to SELL some chickens!

 

 

"With God, ALL things are possible."

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post #9407 of 11360
4/6/12 at 6:13am
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Originally Posted by pasunset View Post

YEAH!!!!!  Woke up at 6 to 3 wet chicks flopping around in hatcher. celebrate.gifSince this is our first hatching attempt, I was so excited, I ran in and woke up my 8 yr. old daughter so she could see them.  she said "Their kinda cute but ugly, I'm going back to bed, wakr me when their cute!"  Apparently I'm much more excited than she is.  ya.gif  32 more in the hatcher to go yet, hopefully!fl.gif

gig.gifMy eight year old laughed too!!
 

 



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Originally Posted by Mahonri View Post

27 out.

 

2 more pipped!!  Both Drekki Icelandics

I just wish my Peachick Ameraucanas would hatch.  All I got SO FAR from her eggs is 1 Am and 1 Sumatra.

I'll "man up" and be grateful for those I get!

 

I'm hoping that I'll get more in the next two days.

 

 


THat's the spirit!!

 



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Originally Posted by stone_family3 View Post

I have two bantams hatched, one zipped and one pipped. Still waiting on my standard sized eggs to do anything !!

 

This is my 3rd incubation and my first success with bantam eggs. 

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I beleive the smaller eggs usually hatch first--so your larger  eggs shouldn't be far behind.

 



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Well I am up to two pips now, but the first wrong-end pip has not progressed sad.png

Hillbilly Hen has nice German NH's too


I often help the wrong-end pips, as they are not as able to twist and zip. ANd thanks for noting HH as anouther source! 

 

NPIP Tested Clean

 

           Eggs available:   Bourbon Red and Sweetgrass Turkeys

             Black Copper Marans, Buff Orpingtons and Speckled Sussex    

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NPIP Tested Clean

 

           Eggs available:   Bourbon Red and Sweetgrass Turkeys

             Black Copper Marans, Buff Orpingtons and Speckled Sussex    

D.gif  jumpy.gifD.gif

 

Grow where you are planted. --Unknown

 

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post #9408 of 11360
4/6/12 at 6:20am

Glad to hear my bigger eggs shouldn't be far behind. I set my banties and serama to hatch yesterday, but my bator runs a day behind LOL. 

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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hatch-cam-2012


Keeping tabs on my five favorite birds and favorite bunnies.

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www.youtube.com/stoneschickens

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hatch-cam-2012


Keeping tabs on my five favorite birds and favorite bunnies.

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post #9409 of 11360
4/6/12 at 6:23am
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Originally Posted by annabananaandfamily View Post

 

Now, can someone explain pipping, peeping, zipping etc.....I feel like you are all speaking a foreign language!!



Pip: first breakthrough of the shell. They can sit like this for HOURS without progressing and that's normal:

062.jpg

 

Zipping is where the chick starts scooting around the inside of the shell and breaking it open in a line like a zipper:

063.jpg

064.jpg

065.jpg

066.jpg

067.jpg

073.jpg

075.jpg

 

Then they sit for a while and rest, and then push with their feet until they're out. Then they're hatched!

I love this! Thank you soooooo much!!!

~2 Light Barhama, 5 Golden Comets, 1 Doberman, Dad, Mom, and 3 brothers!

MAHONRIS 3'd ANNUAL EASTER HATCH-A-LONG

 

 

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~2 Light Barhama, 5 Golden Comets, 1 Doberman, Dad, Mom, and 3 brothers!

MAHONRIS 3'd ANNUAL EASTER HATCH-A-LONG

 

 

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post #9410 of 11360
4/6/12 at 6:23am
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Originally Posted by hennypenny99 View Post

I have a Pip!  Whoooo Hoooo!  wee.gif

 

Now if only I could call in sick to work..... cough... cough.... I think I'm coming down with something.

 . . . cough . . . cough . . . . cough . . . . I think I have it , too.
 

 



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I have a Pip! Whoooo Hoooo! wee.gif

 

Now if only I could call in sick to work..... cough... cough.... I think I'm coming down with something.


I think it's called "hatchitis" very contagious! You MUST stay home lau.gif

 Is anyone else having posting issues today?

No posting issues here. I did change the settings to eliminate a few things like the carousel and avatars = much faster loading!!!!
 

 

NPIP Tested Clean

 

           Eggs available:   Bourbon Red and Sweetgrass Turkeys

             Black Copper Marans, Buff Orpingtons and Speckled Sussex    

D.gif  jumpy.gifD.gif

 

Grow where you are planted. --Unknown

 

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NPIP Tested Clean

 

           Eggs available:   Bourbon Red and Sweetgrass Turkeys

             Black Copper Marans, Buff Orpingtons and Speckled Sussex    

D.gif  jumpy.gifD.gif

 

Grow where you are planted. --Unknown

 

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