It's Day 18 - Hatch on April 8th!

[RHewitt]

I have 17 Blue / Black/ Splash Ameracuana's due to hatch on the 8th also. Lot's of chicks on their way and I wish everyone great success.

 

[teddiliza]

Come on chickies!
Day 19 and no cheeping or pipping yet, and there's a freaking bug in my incubator! Can't open up the lid to smash it, just have to watch it crawl around, it's killing me!

 

[goldnchocolate]

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I just watched your video and I loved it!!! It was so funny to see it pop it's head out of the shell, so quickly, and then it leaned back to take a rest. When you were "cheeping" at it did you notice that it kept blinking it's eye whenever you "cheeped". I'm going to show it to my kids tomorrow

 

[Hens_And_Chicks]

So far, no rocking or rolling - no peeping.

30 eggs in the bator - got the humidity up around 67% - using the flashlight to check for pips but nada.

Headed to bed -

that they get busy tomorrow morning and that magical peeping starts

 

[HobokenChickenEmergency]

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Ugh! That would drive me insane!! LOL

 

[teddiliza]

PEEP!

Go chick go!

I noticed my egg carton had sucked up some of the water I'd put in the tray underneath the wire (oh no!) and after reading some of the posts about chicks drowning I thought I'd better switch the eggs out and move them out of the 'tray zone'. So I swapped all 14 to a dry different carton and moved them, prayed really hard as I frantically dripped water everywhere but on the eggs. Not less than 2 minutes later, humidity was back to 65 and I heard a crunching, then "PEEP". I'd only come to check on the incubator d/t just got the baby asleep and my husband is sawing logs snoring....I can't fall asleep through that racket.

So now I'm hoping I didn't just ruin everything, but I think it was better than letting the eggs rest on damp cardboard, since day 20 starts in 9 hours for me.

I promise I won't touch that lid again until day 21 is over!

 

[littlelemon]

Today is the start of day 21 for me and I woke up to a chick pipping and zipping and cheeping

The other 6 eggs don't show signs of any pips yet.

 

[gervais22]

hey i'm exactly the same. No peeping yet, had some rocking from day 18 but on day 21 now. nothing as of yet.

keep posted

 

[RHewitt]

We all have similar starts to the day at 6:30 am this morning Day 21 for me I have one pipped. Will check on them again at lunch. Should be a interesting (nice word for stressful) day for all of us. Let's keep each other up to date on our progress.

 

[Hens_And_Chicks]

FIRST EGG TO PIP IS BUCKEYEDAVE!!

I was really getting worried - no early pips this time - I heard a faint cheep twice this morning - had to leave to get chicken feed so the girls could eat and when I got back, it's a Buckeye for a Buckeye