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I'm so glad I logged in today. I've been staring at my last few Brahma eggs and wondering when, when, when? \\ and reading these posts gives me the courage to wait for them. After a long and arduous experience with my Dorkings, having to help out 4 that had shrink wrapped despite my obsessive...

Quote: Congrats! Hoping that you will awake from your needed nap to all the rest hatched. Yep, it must be the drama of not knowing that we all must enjoy, every hatch feels like that! What are Aussies? I'm so looking forward to seeing Dorking chick pics & the others. Aussies, just a...

Wow are those chicks in the LG still air "brooder" LOUD!!!! The domino effect is happening in the Hova Bator. More Aussies are out, and several Brahmas are trying very hard to join them Humidity dropped again (to 66%) in the Brinsea so I tossed in a sponge soaked in warm water. Now it's...

Wow am I tired. Kids came running in this morning to tell me there were 2 Dorkings in the Brinsea and 2 yellow chicks in with the black one (australorp). Yes, 2 of the Light or Buff Brahmas hatched out of eggs that had just pipped at 2 a.m. the 2 that have been zipping forever are still not...

Silly me indeed! Number 2, who I call Cesar, has come blasting out! Yes, Dorking number 2 is here!

Still only one Dorking, one Australorp. The Dorkings have 2 that are almost, almost out. They've been unzipped for hours, but the actual shedding off of the egg and emergence has been eternal, simply eternal. One finally has a wing and bill out. It seems determined! I upped humidity (no...

Awwww! I love a hen and chicks! I want a broody! We now have an Australorp! I left for 2 hrs to get kids from school, and this guy showed up! He came out of an egg I hadn't even noticed had pipped! Silly, silly, silly. We have 9 Dorkings still to finish (3 have almost finished...

Okay, the Australorps and Brahmas are indignant at all the attention the Dorkings are getting. They are cheeping and cheeping like mad! I keep hallucinating pips! Darn those speckeldy eggs! I think my Dorking baby needs to read the BYC post on when to intervene in a hatch.....The only...

Why doesn't staring at the eggs make them unzip faster? Zip a little, rest a little, cheep a little, zip a little. Stare, stare, stare, stare. Zip, rest, cheep, zip. Why don't we call it UNzipping? since they are opening the egg, not closing it? The hatch-watching mind doth wander.....

Quote: Gosh, I'm so with you! My eggs in cartons in the other incubator are really bugging me because I can't tell if they are moving! At least the ones on their sides and loose are more obvious! LOL! Are you also hallucinating peeping? That was really pushing me over the brink...

She is! Frankly, this is the first hatch that I've actually been able to witness. My first was a disaster (look up on my older posts) and I was an idiot. This time, with BYC help, I'm doing things pretty darn well. I feel like a new mom, really I do! Now, what does one do when the new...

IT'S REALLY HAPPENING!!!!! I have been so anxious about my Dorkings hatching while I was out of town, but I came home and a gorgeous baby was out and busily cheeping and checking on all the other pipping and zipping eggs. She is such a little broody chick! She has been crouching over the...

It's so fun reading this thread! I got the call today! One Dorking is hatching! I'm out of town at work and the Dorkings I put in lockdown on Sat. are hatching! My "sitter" called very excited to tell me about the pip and chirping she saw/heard when she came to check on my critters...

eeek, rotten egg found at lockdown candling, plus another questionable one. 10/13 made it to lockdown. I'm happy/sad. /

Quote: You are so right! 'tis like Christmas! when you were about 7 years old and not suspecting your parents are Santa!!!! I put my first doz of a staggered hatch into lockdown today. I'm soooo nervous! Post pics when your baby makes it out!

Quote: Congrats! I'm so ready! I'll be there next week, lockdown this weekend!

12/13 Red Dorkings (locally obtained) kickin' and gorgeous on day 16. 12/15 Australorps (ebay win, shipped eggs) also kickin' on day 14. 25/35 Brahmas (Light and buff, another ebay win, shipped eggs) kickin' on day 14. That's 92%, 80% and 71% babies alive respectively. Dorkings and...

Quote: I totally get you. My LG has been a royal pain in the arse. I finally closed off both vents and put a weight on top to keep it sealed. The temps vary still, but the swings are worse if I meddle with the control so I just keep my hands off it and hope these babies make it to...

OOOO! Too bad there's no room in the 'bators for more eggs! I want Salmon Favs now!