FEBRUARY HATCH-A-LONG come join in

[Orphy]

what day are you on? today is hatch day for us.. with hearing the peeping and it being loud in there I am worried that one may have piped upside down. I have to sit on my hands after hearing the peep.

I know not to touch anything, I am prob just over worrying since seeing the one thread where they had an upside down pip. I am half tempted to take them out of the egg carton and lay them on the mesh, now I am worried that they may be too confined standing straight up.

someone tell me I am worrying over nothing and it is normal for them to peep this long without pipping!

 

[PandoraTaylor]

chicks

 

[chickenmeadow]

To add to the mania, I like to click my flashlight on too often while peering in to search for a pip & another pip. I imagine by the time they hatch, they are pretty upset with who it was with the flashlight. (I'll never tell)

Feather Landings: You have fantastic dreams, that's wonderful! An imaginative writer in the making, you are.

Orpy: The wide ends of the eggs are up, so eggs are in the correct position in the cartons, right! You are doing so good by not opening the incubator & loosing precious humidity.

On Christmas, my hubby who always gets up too early walked by the incubator, turned on the light, & was surprised to see 3 zipped eggs suddenly pop open their little egg hats. The chicks leaped, like they were just waiting for an excuse to come out. Shoot, I was still sleeping & missed it. For a while, I thought the egg carton thing was goofy, but so glad I tried it. Really like the way the upright position allows them to climb out of the shell in their own time, instead of being knocked around in different positions & forced to fall out.

We're all waiting for hatching news!

edit: Almost forgot to mention that I had left my wallet & phone at home (because it fell out of my purse on the way out), so........ I had to go home to get it for various reasons. Besides, I'm one of the bosses. Well........ while I was there, I clicked on the flashlight & found 1 pip. What a convenient mistake that wallet thing was.

 

[Orphy]

We got a pip! finally!

 

[LMEggs]

WOO HOO theres 11 buttons so far out of 33 and still going!!! 1 out of 3 eggs from my brown coturnix hatched so far!!!!
Well Ignore the widely spread feed but I found it easier to get them started eating that way with all the quails i've had so far then put it all in a lid later on once they got some food in them.


Heres the nine that hatched from 10 am yesterday from 6 am this morning will get more pictures later!

Heres one baby! Tiny huh ? This one I named Coco!

LOL heres one of my Buff Orpington eggs with them

Come on little red lets go play LOL!

Heres all nine babies from earlier you can tell they are relaxin!

Coco and snowflake... Would have been snowball but not big enough to be one so it has to be Snowflake.

Six sleeping beauties

Snowflake and dust bunny

All nine again

Another size picture ( I bet that one is thinking HEY stop kickin me!)

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

great... now I need quail....

 

[Orphy]

How cute!!! I love snow flake!

They are so cute!!!

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

Here are my new babies

They're half barred rock and half EE mix.

 

[Orphy]

Awww! I have fuzz butt envy!
They are super cute!

 

[MuranoFarms]

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Awwww you did it now! Now I have to get quial!
I showed my 9 year old and he said "we need one of those. It's cute!" I said "what are we gonna do with quail???" He says "say its cute and call it a day!"