Day 17/18/19 here... CHICK PICS!!

[Cara]

How will you handle the withdrawal?

My husband is already threatening to call Intervention about my chicken habit.

Another egg pipped, and the Orpington is making a little progress. The latest one has a crack an inch long in it, not the usual little round chip. Maybe it's an enormous chick that stretched and popped the shell open lol

 

[speckledhen]

It does feel weird not to have eggs to watch and fuss over when you're done hatching! Sure hope the eggs of mine that are still in your bator hatch without a hitch for you, and the others, too.

 

[Cara]

I have a huge baby Orpington, and another on the way! Its made itself a kind of trapdoor in the top of the shell, and keeps peeking out at me.

 

[KKluckers]

yeah!!! go little chickys

 

[Cara]

Two Blue Orpingtons and a Sultan now

 

[Cara]

One pipped then did nothing, so I helped it but it had died. Why do they pip when they haven't absorbed the yolk?

 

[KKluckers]

I dobnt know why they do that. I had one pip then die. Was it from Catalpa? The same thing happen!

 

[Cara]

Yes, Cynthia's aren't due until tomorrow. I'm not holding out much hope for the others from Catalpa, I haven't seen anything happen with them, although day 21 only started at 2pm. This hatch has been pretty uneventful and slow so far.

 

[speckledhen]

I've never had one actually pip and have an entire yolk unabsorbed, only a tiny bit of one, maybe. I dont know exactly why it would pip when it really wasn't ready unless it was running out of air and had to pip, if that even makes any sense.

 

[Cara]

It was a very big chick. It looked like most of the yolk was unabsorbed, but there was no blood in the blood vessels surrounding the chick.