Day 22 and my first pip...UPDATED 1st HATCH!!!! PICS ADDED

[Gypsy07]

Ooooh! very cool photos. BTW, I just noticed you're hatching in cartons. Are they zipping anti-clockwise?

 

[dwdoc]

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Now that you mention it...it did zip counter-clockwise? Why do you ask?

 

[Gypsy07]

I read a while ago how the chick embryos all develop the same way and when they're full size and just about ready to pip, their head is under their right wing. Always the right wing apparently. So I thought, if their head is always under the same wing, it must affect the direction they can turn in the shell when zipping. I watched a few of mine in three different hatches, and I think they all zip the same way, anti-clockwise, but when I've asked here on the forum, nobody's sure. So when someone's hatching, I try to remember and ask!

 

[dwdoc]

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I have four more that have not pipped yet but I will now be watching for it too. In fact once these are done I'll be setting 18 eggs and I'll make note on their zip direction too.

 

[steffpeck]

Congratulations!!!! I hope the rest hatch soon for you!!

 

[macdoogle]

What's the longest it can take from 1st chick to hatch to last. I need to put more eggs in the bator that are sitting on the counter. They need to go in by tomorrow. I'm wondering if I should go get another bator. Thing is my egg turner frame is in with the chick and 3 remaining eggs.