Is this considered piping? I AM FREAKING OUT

[Chosen Chickens]

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Oh I am old enough!!! But I am not sure wine will help, it may just make me less reasonable! So how long do I wait before I help?

 

[momreda]

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I am sorry that this is so stressful for you. I am only 15 days into mine and hubby is telling me to take a chill pill. Please keep the thread updated with your babies progress, I am curious how long it will actually take them to break out. How long have you been able to see them moving around?

 

[Chosen Chickens]

I saw them starting to wiggle about 24 hours ago.... not major strong wiggles, but rocking of their eggs.... I heard the chirping this morning and afternoon but nothing since then on wiggles or chirping... going to bed hoping there is some kind of change by morning

 

[Egg_newton]

My boyfriend must have told me at least 100 times to "leave those chickens alone!" I was peeking in the bator, checking for pips, zips, temp, humidity, chicks. You know how it goes on your first hatch.

 

[silkienewbiegurl]

I'm stressed already and I'm just a curious observer! LOL Good luck with the chicks and I hope you'll wake up to some hatched fluff balls! Yes, keep us posted, please! I'm a nervous wreck out here!
Aloha,
Joan

 

[busylizzie]

Hi - hope you have good news on waking up - personally by day 22 I would be helping any pippers/zippers who
were faltering - even just to open up the pip a little bit - but I am naughty

 

[Gypsy07]

Hi there. After my first hatch all started pipping two days late (before I found this forum and realised it was such a no-no!) I kept opening the bator door and checking on their progress. My bator is quite hard to see inside with the door shut and just like you I was freaking out about having to help them and panicking in case they all died in there. So anyway I couldn't restrain myself and 'helped' a couple of them by making their air hole bigger. I ended up with four healthy chicks but one of them died in the egg after pipping and I now know that it was probably my fault for opening the door and letting the moisture levels drop.

Anyway... I'd wait as long as possible before doing anything to help them. And btw, my eggs were cheeping and rocking for a day and a half before the first pip.

Good luck!

 

[TennesseeTruly]

STEP AWAY FROM THE INCUBATOR!!! LOL They're just fine. If you open the incubator you're jeopardizing all their lives. I promise you that little chick can get air. When they pip, they are breaking the egg shell and the internal lining so they ARE getting air even if it doesn't seem like it.

You don't need to help them. Just let things happen the way they should. You and they will be fine!

Laurie

 

[halo]

Remember, billions of chicks hatch every year with no other help than Mother Nature, and most of them make it just fine. So just sit back and watch Mother Nature at her finest. And learn patience from her. It takes an experienced hatcher to know if and when to intervene.
And DONT OPEN THAT BATOR!

 

[Mahonri]

Hopefully, our friend from Utah is still asleep