Day 23, egg pipped this morning but

[Dcat]

LOL I think she's got this. Just took this pick.

 

[pogmobum]

Haha oh ya nothing is stopping that chick from breaking free!

 

[Dcat]

She is kicking butt in there! My son is taping it now using his phone. This way we can all watch atthe same time lol

 

[Dcat]

 

[pogmobum]

Do you know what breed it is your about to have? God she works fast welcome leonardo if im reading it right lol

 

[Dcat]

I believe this is an Americuna (sp?) Hen and the dad is either a RIR or a mix of RIR. She is starting to rest, peep loud then push and start over again. Each push is breaking off a piece of shell.

 

[Dcat]

She hatched at 10:15 and now she doing the new chick flop all over the place lol.

 

[Dcat]

Oh and yes she is a Leonardo. We were hoping to do some reverse physiology to make sure it was a girl, LOL.

 

[pogmobum]

Haha i hope it works for you i ended up with to many roosters last time i hope the others hatch as easily for you. I just set my broody frizzle cochin on five eggs this eve shes been broody for over a week now and wont stop so i decide to let her go for it and am now having to build a whole new coop lol im just going to make it extra big because this will prob happen again

 

[Dcat]

This was from a lady who just lets her roosters and hens stay in the same pen. She would collect the eggs every day to eat. When she found out I wanted to try hatching she couldn't get me to her house fast enough to see how this would work. I had only had the incubator set up for a day when she was insisting I come get the eggs. Luckily the temps always stayed good but I couldn't get the humidity up. Home made from a Styrofoam cooler. I tried to put together a computer fan so it would have circulation but I couldn't get the fan to work. So thats when I learned about dry hatching and while I was waiting for day 21 I learned how to get the humidity up and stable, I added water to the bottom of the cooler since I had the chicken wire in there too. More research shows that I probably should have kept my temps a tad higher than the 99 degrees since there was no circulation.
I learned so much with this first hatch. Broke my own heart a couple times that's for sure. These are some hard lessons to learn but I believe oh so worth it. Give me a sec and I am going to post a fluffy pic from earlier today. So tiny and cute!