4/12/12 Setting Date--Anyone joining me?

[auntie hattie]

Two have hatched! One pip left but it has been that way for 24 hours. It's beak is breathing through the hole it made but hasn't zipped. It made it's pip at the small end of the egg so I don't know if that is the problem. Oh the stress and worry.

Miss Giggles happy to hear about your little one!

 

[Miss Giggles]

Thanks Aunt Hattie. Had major issue after pipping yesterday humidity pump tube came out of water supply so as I was was out during afternoon it was pumping air into bator! Think thats why it was having problems. I know most say you shouldn't interfere but I have set these eggs, I have incubated them artificially so I am not going to sit there and watch them die! Chick 1 is now in brooder, chick 2 is out recovering from hatch and still waiting for something from egg 3.

 

[Sphinx]

Yay! Congrats on your chicks, Aunt Hattie and Miss Giggles! Personally, I'm not totally anti-help. It sounds like you did the right thing.


I went in this morning to the school to bring in the laptop so we could get the webcam going. Dolphin had hatched!!! Just barely from the look of it. Bryan had pipped, and several more were jiggling around.


The class where the incubator is located is having end of level tests, so I can't get the webcam set up for another hour or so. I don't think anything exciting will be happening just yet though.

I'll be moving Dolphin to the brooder when I come back to the school.

 

[Sphinx]

Hatching cam is live!

Here's Dolphin!

 

[auntie hattie]

Sphinx- Dolphin is so cute!!! Your little one sure knows how to pick the cutest name and 1st egg to hatch.

So when do you take yours out of the incubator? Mine are still in and climbing over all the eggs. They don't seem to be drying much either.

 

[auntie hattie]

Oh man I'm in trouble now I won't be able to get anything done today. I just saw your web cam!

 

[Sphinx]

Aunt Hattie, I'm a terrible, terrible influence, and you should never do what I do.

But, here's what I did. I found Dolphin hatched at 8am. The kids were doing end of level testing, and I didn't want to disrupt that very much. So, I left it in the incubator until they finished and then went out to recess, around 10:45am. While they were out, I got the brooder set up, and then took the chick out of the incubator. I know you're not supposed to open the incubator when other eggs are pipped, but I've never had any issues with shrink wrapping with my brinsea. I've heard enough horror stories that I'm scared to tell anyone else to do that though.

I didn't name the eggs, though I'm cracking up at the names. I let the first graders pick the names. So, we have:

Andy
Bryan (really?)
CJ
Dolphin
Erin (this is the first name of one of the teachers, incidentally)
Fred
Ginger

At about the time they named Fred, I begged them to give the last egg a girly name- I don't want a whole bunch of roosters!!!

 

[Miss Giggles]

No pip from egg 3 yet. Wobbling a fraction tho. Chick 2 is doing well and is now with chick 1 in the brooder. Will post pics sometime tomorrow but my chicks look very similar to "dolphin"

 

[Grizzledizzle]

I currently have two computers going.. one for work.. the other for the stream! Thanks Sphinx!

 

[Sphinx]

ROFL Sorry! The peep show can be a terrible time suck.

I have so much to do today. I can't sit here and obsess over the eggs. I do have to say that I love being able to peek in on them! My last hatch was at my son's preschool, and I didn't get to check on them more than twice a day. It was maddening. This is fantastic. I'm going to bring a light into the school this afternoon so that as night falls, there will be light and I can watch the eggs in my pjs at home.