Day #19 and I thing this is going to be a bust! UPDATE..I HAVE PIPPING

[SandyC]

I'm starting to hear faint peeping from the first egg.

 

[bangor777]

So....any updates this morning????? congrats on the pips, hope you woke up to a bunch of chicks this morning!

 

[goatkeepers]

Congrats!!

 

[SandyC]

Well, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of progress. I can see the one that pipped first, moving inside the egg, but it has only removed about a lima bean sized bit of the shell. The other two don't look much different than they did late last night. One has a pin sized hole through the shell and the other only an bulging with a crack in it.

None of the other eggs are showing any signs of anything.

 

[SandyC]

I hear peeping and other noises. I hope this happens!

 

[MissPrissy]

It can take 24 hours or more from pip to hatch or they can zip along right beofre you eyes and hatch in a matter of minutes. This is the hard part! Congrats on your pips!

 

[SandyC]

The humidity level has dropped to just under 70%. Should I open up the incubator and add more water or just let it be????

 

[MissPrissy]

Let it be. Don't open the bator. You will disturb the hatching environment.

 

[SandyC]

Oh...this is SO NERVE RACKING!!!! I don't know how some of you people do it again and again!!!!! I'm not going to get a thing done today!

 

[jkcove08]

The way we do it again and again is for that exact reason..lol I have hatched so many darn chicks over this winter to this spring that I cant wait to turn off the bators..

I have 1 bator running now with turkey and guinea eggs in it and I will have to warm up 1 more for the button eggs that I have coming but when those hatch I am done for the year. I truely never thought I would say that but I am tired of having bators running and brooders running.

Talk about a high electric bill..lol I know just how you feel right now and am glad I have gotten over the gitters. As long as the humidity is 60 or greater they will be fine. The best thing I can tell you is go to town and go shopping or go out side and do not go to the bator every 2 minutes. It never fails and you finally think something has to be wrong and open the bator. THAT is when you mess it up for every one else in there. If I am going to take chicks out I will always wait until everyone hatches and there are absolutely no pipps on the other eggs. Good luck and cant wait to see peep pics. Jenn