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

[ozark hen]

that would drive me nuts...the not knowing what to do!!

 

[Smitty's Farm]

OK Cyn, what going happening on your end? Are we hatch watching buddies tonight? What's the longest wait you've had for them to zip & hatch?

 

[speckledhen]

Gee, I think this must the the longest I've waited for a hatch after the first pip. They are making me crazy this time around. And the first Welsummer just keep cheeping with his/her little beak sticking out the pip. That one's been pipped quite a long time, too. Someone needs to hatch tonight!

 

[wegotchickens]

Wow. Technically nights are getting shorter. But not for you and Kim!
Hope you get some babies really soon!!

 

[speckledhen]

Calling Tuffoldhen! You need to tell me I absolutely cannot help these chicks hatch, LOL. I swore I would not do that, but these that have been pipped almost 24 hours are making me nuts. And my DH is worse! I know, I know. Go to bed. They'll all hatch and party without me.

 

[Katy]

OK...I'm not Sandy, but here goes anyway....Sit on your hands....go to bed and get some rest...

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks, Katy, LOL. Knew someone with a level head would tell me to STOP! Really, I need to be ready to lose a few and know that if they can't get out of the egg, there's a reason they probably shouldn't.

 

[Smitty's Farm]

I bet that is driving you crazy. Mine are driving me bananas and I guess it's been about 11 hrs now. What is it typically 12-24 hrs after a pip? I am sitting on my hands. I really want to roll the one over that pipped on the bottom. Egg #4 keeps poking it's little beak out and wiggling, but that is it.

 

[speckledhen]

I've got two that are doing the beak-waving thing, a RIR and a Welsummer, and the Wellie is a loudmouth, too. I keep thinking, "Why don't you put all that effort into cracking that shell open, kid?".

 

[FrontPorchIndiana]

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Charlotte's baby did the same thing. I could hear her outside on the porch! She finally broke out but was exhausted for a couple days.

BTW, they're all doing fine, growing like weeds. We named the silver guy Zorro. And I'm head over heals in love the the little buggars.