Day 21, 2 pips!!

[stanglover2001]

YAY!!! 2 Pips out of 5 eggs, I wasn't able to candle them very well they're a nice blue EE eggs. I'm soo excited! 2 are on day 20 and 3 are on day 21, I have had the worst of luck this whole time so this makes it worth it!

 

[LuvMyPeeps7]

Good luck I still have 2 weeks left........

 

[stanglover2001]

I got my first PEEP!!!

I'm having trouble containing myself!!!

ETA: This is the first time I've incubated before!

 

[GraceAK]

Good for you! I was so excited when my chicks were pipping!
I hope they don't have too much trouble.

 

[stanglover2001]

YAY!! 3rd one has almost pipped!! And one of them is chirping every so often! I keep pressing my face up to the window viewer of the incubator to watch

 

[SimplySplendidSilkies]

So happy for you! I hope I do as well when I set my first eggs next month. Congrats on the babies!

 

[stanglover2001]

Thanks guys!!! I love these kind of support groups!

I'll post pics of whatever hatches!

 

[gryeyes]

Congrats!!!!

For my first incubation attempt, when I first heard the very first, faint peep from within the incubator, I was so excited you would never have known I am a 57 year old "professional person." I dang near danced around like that little smiley does!

Then the first pip... OMG OMG OMG! The first pipped egg didn't do a THING for TWO DAYS! But I did hear peeps and faint tapping, so I knew somebody was still alive in the incubator. When I woke up the 3rd morning before going to work, I had a chick from that first pipped egg. I almost called in sick to watch that incubator!

I came home to three chicks. Eventually, 5 survived that first hatching (out of 7 eggs).

Hooked. Simply hooked on hatching. I've since hatched two more small broods of 3 chicks apiece, have a set due to go on lockdown tomorrow morning, and just received two sets of shipped eggs today to fill my two small empty incubators.

I'll be going on a full month's vacation in mid-October; you can bet I'll be watching incubators.

Oh, and pictures are REQUIRED, not just an option!

 

[stanglover2001]

So this is what they were doing last night before bed, I had 3 pipped.

This is what it looked like when I awoke.

An hour after I found it.

 

[stanglover2001]

Baby still hasn't broken through! This is driving me crazy! Wheres a straight jacket when you need one?