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My Ameraucana eggs are six hours into their 20th day of incubation. I am SSSSSOOOOO nervous!!!!! There were originally 12, but then my son knocked the incubator and cracked one beyond rescuing. I opened it up and the tiny little ten day old embryo was developing. I was mad, but quickly got over it. Then there eleven. On day 15 I was candling to see how all the chickies were doing and I DROPPED ONE!!! Oh, I kicked myself over that one for two days. This one too was too damaged for melted wax, so I opened it up and saw the tiny little chick moving. My kids were in aw over it.
Fast forward to now. The eggs are six hours into day 20 and I am so nervous. I hope I did everything right and as many hatch as possible (100% would be awesome). They eggs are all wiggling and twitching. Two have even rolled toward their neighbors and rolled back! Today I've caught myself checking the temperature and looking for signs of pipping about every two hours. When should they start to pip?