4/17/12 Hatch buddy anyone? - Page 15

They are gorgeous!

oooh, cute!  Thanks for the pics, Farmin Momma!  I love them!  A few of mine look just like that - they have Australorp mommas and a banty Cochin daddy! 

Oh cool, a few of mine could be from my Australorp momma and the rooster is a standard Black Cochin!

Thank you, I think most of them look like lil penguins! 

Quote:

Originally Posted by mygreenkitty 

oooh, cute!  Thanks for the pics, Farmin Momma!  I love them!  A few of mine look just like that - they have Australorp mommas and a banty Cochin daddy! 

Wow, everyone's chicks have hatched....too late to say I now have 2 pips??

Well, I do.

2 Little Partridge silkies are trying to bust their way out

2 pips, 4 to go!

Come on babies!

Quote:

Originally Posted by silkiemelon 

Wow, everyone's chicks have hatched....too late to say I now have 2 pips??

 

Well, I do.

2 Little Partridge silkies are trying to bust their way out

2 pips, 4 to go!

Come on babies!

Not too late at all!

Congratulations! 

 Woo hoo for Silkies!!!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by silkiemelon 

Wow, everyone's chicks have hatched....too late to say I now have 2 pips??

 

Well, I do.

2 Little Partridge silkies are trying to bust their way out

2 pips, 4 to go!

Come on babies!

I've got 5 little chicks all over momma...2 banties, 3 standard.8 eggs still in the nest! :D

I've read this whole thread, from the beginning, because I'm anxiously awaiting my first pip. I set 8 eggs (not sure what breed, as the person who gave them to me did not know...) on the afternoon of April 19th.

The two that survived through to lock down have been rocking and rolling all evening, but no visible pips yet.

Unfortunately (for me, that is...) we're incubating in a pre-school classroom at my child care centre and it is, currently, 10:57 pm...   I haven't been home from work yet, nor have I eaten any supper  because I've been too busy anxiously staring at the eggs and reading every thread, here, that I've put my eyes on...being reassured (by most) and newly anxious (by some) of the posts I've been reading.

The frustating part is that I have GOT to go home! After all, I'll have to be back here in less than 9 hours! But, I'm terrified that I might miss them hatching - or worse - they might hatch and something could go wrong and I won't be here to do anything about it...!

Though, we do have an infant program, so I have been contemplating pulling a crib mattress out of one of the cribs and settling in, for the night, in the pre-school room, beside the bator ...

What d'ya think, folks, am I nutso, or what???

If you really care about not missing them, why not, have a campout :)

But in my experience, once a chick pip's it can take up to 13 hours (for me at least)for them to hatch. And seeing that you said they haven't even pipped yet, I would say go home, but I can't promise you they won't hatch over night. They could.

But if those were mine, I would go home, reassured they would probably not hatch.

I don't want to be the guy who say's "Go home, they won't hatch" And then you come back in the morning and they hatched overnight. But in my opinion, I think you're safe.

Ya, I think I know that, too... ha ha I'm just getting carried away, reading threads and putting off going home. At this point, it's 11:15 pm and my truck is halfway across the parking lot. AND the best I can hope for, for food, is McDonalds Bummer! I guess I'll mop up the hallway and then go the heck home! I'll just go take one tiny peek more, at those, eggs, before I go...   Ha Ha