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I can't wait either! Oh my goodness! How adorable!!!Cool! Mine started rocking on day 18 and today there are seven hatched and seven pipped, waiting for the others to pip....
Oh, how exciting!!!! I can not wait to see pictures of them!!! You are so lucky.
Well, out of the dozen Buff Orpington eggs I set five have hatched and one is pipped. I had to help one Buff Orpington after 14 hours of not moving a bit and he/she is doing great! All the buff orpingtons are so energetic when they first hatch! They are running around so much am I afraid they are going to break the other eggs! I set 6 Black Australorp eggs and 2 are hatched and the other 4 are pipped. The first one got out, but then the membrane somehow put it in a straitjacket and the poor thing could not move and I had to clip it a bit to get it started. After struggling so much she was very weak, on top of the fact I had to help her, but she is perking up a bit now and I think she'll pull through. The second Australorp hatched 30 minutes ago and is still drying off in the incubator.
This is the second Australorp chick.
Out of the 8 White leghorn/Australorp crosses, one was infertile, two have pipped and still waiting on the others. Here are the peeps!
I got up in the middle of the night to check on them and ended up falling asleep with a chick nestled in my neck next to the incubator.