Day 19 Halfway Over Already! Stage One, the first 49 Eggs * PIPS!!!!*

[Smitty's Farm]

Good luck, Cynthia! Your camera takes good pictures through your viewing window.

I'm on Day 20th myself w/ some of Skeeter9's Ameraucanas. I'm trying not to just stare at the bator. I was doing really good this morning until I noticed I had a pip, now I won't get anything done today.

 

[speckledhen]

One Ameraucana has pipped! Lynn, they're coming! It's a tiny pip, but a pip, nonetheless.

 

[Smitty's Farm]

Come on Chickies!!!!!!

I can't wait to see them!

 

[speckledhen]

They are BAD chickies! Still, the first two RIRs pipped look pretty much the same and the third has a hole with a beak visible. The Welsummer has caught up to that one, with its beak showing. The pip in the Ameraucana egg is slightly larger and the Blue Orp pip is raised up a bit more. I hear a peep from time to time, but no other visible pips!

****Oops! A second Welsummer has pipped! Yippee! But, I'm about ready for a chick or two in the brooder!

 

[Smitty's Farm]

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Hey Speckled, I can't remember what day you are on?

At least you can see some beak action. All I have is pips, but no beak show yet.

This waiting is sooooooo hard!

Come on chickies! You can do it!!!!!! Keep us posted!

 

[speckledhen]

Generally, it's Day 20, but if I'm being completely technical from exactly when I put them in the bator, Day 21 just started. Seven pips, but 42 to go. :|

 

[HenHaven]

I took a nap and woke up to an Ameraucana pip!

I think we are going to see a lot of action between now and bedtime!!! Why am I telling time in terms of sleep? I'm wierd!

 

[HenHaven]

Cyn and Smitty: You guys are hatching cousin chicks, did you realize that? Different parents, but all parents are from the same Cree hatch! What's incredible, is that you are hatching at the same time!!!

 

[Smitty's Farm]

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Ooooh! That is so cool! Our chickens will be relatives.

 

[speckledhen]

That's right, we are! We're inlaws, LOL. A Buff Orpington, one of Julie's, just pipped. 8 of 49. We have a way to go. Nobody wants to come out and play, they just want to peek out the window!