27th or 28th May hatch, looking for buddies

[Nikki1976]

I have 2 pips this morning!!! WhooHooo!!! My first bator's hatch date was supposed to be Wednesday and they're just now hatching. My second bator's hatch date is today. I have one hatching in each so far and TONS of movement!!! I'm just bummed that I had to come to work this morning.

I won't be getting back home until 10:30 tonight, but at least my hubby will be home all day to give me updates! I'm SOOO excited!!

 

[Louieandthecrew]

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Yay!! Good luck on the rest of your hatch!

 

[giggleboxfarm]

Yesterday was day 21 for my fellows. One hatched in the am, with a bunch pipping. This morning I am down to 4 eggs left unhatched, 19 hatched. 2 are pipping. I caught one on video right as it started to zip. It took 10min to zip, but I've got the video up on youtube. The hatched chickens were all over the other eggs, bumping into them and rolling them.

 

[fobpatdgurl18]

Still nothing here. Getting anxious!

 

[allthingsdomestic]

Hi. Here is my story in case someone else can glean from it. I feel I owe it to the site to share since I was so blessed by reading all the posts myself.
This is our first time and we are doing it with borrowed incubators. One is a little giant and one is an all automatic that only holds 3 eggs. We are hatching with a due date of today. Five of my six Little Giant eggs (3 white silkies and 3 brown) pipped early yesterday morning and then didn't do anything all day except occasionally peep. I started to get worried around 5pm and started to doubt the instruction manual that described a 12 hour process. So then I googled the topic and found BYC. After reading what seemed like an endless stream of alternating opinions on the topic of interceding, I decided I would err on the side of too much help since the whole artificial process was full of human error from the get go and each candling showed very healthy embryos all along.
I was only on day 20 so I proceeded carefully on the first zip job and stopped when a small blood trickle occurred. At this point the little guy looked happy, his face was clear of fluid and he was peeping energetically between naps. We did a complete zip job on three others, made sure there was plenty of humidity, and we went to bed. My excited 9 year old son got me up 5 hours later

and two had finished the job and were hobbling around the bator drying off! The one that had the blood show last night was still in his shell and looked glued in with dried membrane, but cheerfully peeped at me when he saw me.

I helped him get unglued around his face and shoulders with a dull tweezers and put him back and he finished the job within an hour. Now I have three little cheepers drying off and looking adorable. Sadly, the fourth egg (brown) we had zipped last night was awfully still and I missed it that he had lots of fluid near his beak that may have formed while we were videoing the new chicks. Maybe he drowned. We got him out before my little girls wake up and see him like that.
The fifth pipped egg (brown) was sitting there unchanged from yesterday so I took it out and gave it a zip job and he was very much alive in there. This time I was meticulous about making sure the beak was totally clear of ANY obstructions, wrapped him in a moist washcloth and I will give him some time with keeping a close eye on him, especially because he is my only brown viable so far. He is breathing strong and he is hanging out for now.
The last Little Giant brown silkie egg (brown) is still doing nothing, no cracks, no noise, no wiggling. I candled it and I don't see any movement. Not sure if I should leave it in there and give it a couple days or what?
Interesting fact that the three happy cheepers in there are the 3 white ones

and the slower, troubled ones are brown. (1-the one I lost this morning, 2- the quiet, closed egg, and 3-the one that is slower and still sticking his beak out of a shell, these were the brown ones).

Finally, I have three left (two browns and a white) in the super automatic incubator (R-Com Digital Egg Incubator) that controls everything for you. Today is the due date and no indications of activity or cheeping yet. I was sure that this incubator was going to be the more exciting show, not the incubator where I had to do jumping jacks for three weeks keeping it regulated.

There is still plenty of time though.
That's our story so far.

 

[MSH]

my last egg pipped the air sac last night but this morning wasn't moving and had made no more progress I pulled some of the shell away and now it is brething and moving ! I'm so scared I don't want to kill it by helping but I don't want it to die because I didn't ! when I picked at the piece of shell it bled a tiny bit I'm waiting it stops moving and when I tap on the incubator glass it starts moving it's beak and like it's trying to cheep but no sound ooohhhhh help what should I do ? I hope someone is online now !

 

[natchlaly]

now up to 4

knocking the other eggs all over the bator think I am gonna have t try n get em out soon to give the others more of a chance

saw the last one of the 4 hatch so am well chuffed

 

[Tala]

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Just let it be, it will probably be ok. It may have just been a late bloomer and after it pipped it was still resting and absorbing yolk. They can take 24ish hours after their pip to finally be ready to zip out. If you try to help it out before it's ready you might kill it.

My first pip has started zipping!!

And I caught a good-sized raccoon last night too.

ETA: Just popped out!

 

[natchlaly]

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Just let it be, it will probably be ok. It may have just been a late bloomer and after it pipped it was still resting and absorbing yolk. They can take 24ish hours after their pip to finally be ready to zip out. If you try to help it out before it's ready you might kill it.

My first pip has started zipping!!

And I caught a good-sized raccoon last night too.

ETA: Just popped out!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.ne..._739006543351_55007926_36426213_6383109_n.jpg

MSH sure everything will be fine probably just having a rest

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Tala this is wonderful news

 

[MSH]

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Just let it be, it will probably be ok. It may have just been a late bloomer and after it pipped it was still resting and absorbing yolk. They can take 24ish hours after their pip to finally be ready to zip out. If you try to help it out before it's ready you might kill it.

My first pip has started zipping!!

And I caught a good-sized raccoon last night too.

ETA: Just popped out!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.ne..._739006543351_55007926_36426213_6383109_n.jpg

thanks I left and went to the huddle house lol then grocery shopping chickie still isn't doin much but I'll leave alone thanks again