*80% Hatching Rate!!!!* Setting 3/14/2010, PI Day!

[jojo@rolling acres farm]

Can you guys define "lock-down" for me?

 

[pawtraitart]

"Lockdown" means you stop turning the eggs, raise the humidity, and don't open the incubator until hatching has completed.

 

[Celtic Hill]

when should we start seeing pips?

 

[pawtraitart]

If this hatch goes the way my previous ones have, I'll start seeing a few pips late tomorrow afternoon. I had one early bird last hatch that was already zipping out by then. I don't know what time he pipped. I looked into my bator to check the humidity around 4pm that day and he was on his way out! The other ones waited until that evening on into the next day.

 

[Celtic Hill]

okay im excited! Thanks!

 

[Celtic Hill]

I got my first pip this morning!

 

[pawtraitart]

whooohoooo!!!! Congrats on your first pip!

 

[Celtic Hill]

so excited! anything with your chicks?

 

[pawtraitart]

I hear peeping so there are some internal pips, but no external ones yet. Exciting!

 

[Celtic Hill]

i havn't heard any peeping, is that bad?