I have a pip!

[kesrchicky16]

I should soooooo be sleeping but tomorrow (well it's after midnight so today) is hatch day and I was laying I bed (yes stupid me putting the incubator in my bedroom) and I heard a peep. 2:00 first external pip! Hopefully peepy little chick by morning.

 

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Yay! You’ll have to keep us updated Sit on your hands!

Hands are sat. I even got some sleep! Little fuzzy is still tucked in tight. It has pushed the shell more open and is still "peep"ing.

 

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Chick 3 has arrived. Another buff Orpington. Can't see it's comb so father unknown for now.

Still just 1 pip left. Well see what night brings and update in the morning. Time for this mama hen to sleep.

I'll leave you all with this. First pic is baby 1 on the left. Rest of the pics are baby 1.

 

[kesrchicky16]

2 pips! No unzipping yet but I'm off to work for a few hours. Hubby is on pip watch.

 

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3rd pip! Uh oh small end, well middle. Egg is more football shaped but the air cell is on the other side.

Did I mention I have 31 eggs? I'll give a summary update when I have a fluffy pic.

 

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Update. One wet chick, 1 unzipping, 2 pips (1 normal, 1 wrong end)

 

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And to make up for the chick butt. Here is my fluffy footed little penguin

 

[kesrchicky16]

One of mine that developed but died in the shell was in a football shaped egg. I did an egg necropsy and it had no air cell what so ever in it. It had not died long before opened it (but it was stiff) but the blood was red enough to tell me that had I gone with my gut and did that sooner, it MAY have lived (or I may have killed it and would feeling pretty crummy right now). It did not die from me assisting. Had it been still alive, it would have bled when I was unhusking the shell. No bleeding....

It has a developed air cell that I marked when I candled at lockdown.

 

[kesrchicky16]

I'm so jealous. I want to be hatching but I'm trying to wait a few more weeks.
Congrats, and continued good luck with the hatch!

This was out of necessity. My alpha roo is no longer and I wanted his babies. I was at a now or never point. That is why I want rose comb and walnut comb babies. He was a backyard breed but he got his rose comb and his brother didn't. So any rose comb babies are his.

 

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Here are the first 8 numbered by birth order. Luckily they each have a unique mark. 9 and 10 are in containers in the incubator so they don't mess with the eggs. They are the "moral support for the 2 confirmed still alive babies.