Lockdown Begins....I am so nervous!

[mkcolls]

Congrats!! Let the pipping and zipping continue.

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

GOO CHICKIES!!

Hatch hatch hatch!!!

 

[smchickfarm]

GOOD LUCK!!!!

HAPPY HATCHING!!!!

 

[Aumlet]

So exciting!!!

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

While your waiting think of some good names!

 

[MyShunshyn]

We Have our first hatch! only 10 hours after Pip. SO Proud! and I see another Pip now too!
This one looks to be a BR/EE Mutt but sooo cute already

 

[PeuAPeu]

Congratulations on the first one! Adorable.....let's all say a collective "awwwwwwwwwww"

 

[MyShunshyn]

THanks, he or she is drying off nicely and a very lovely charcoal grey with what appears to be a black beak and black or very dark green legs, Daddy is an EE and Mommy is a BR.
I have several more tiny pips but some have not even completely opened the shell. I know everyone asks this but how long should I wait for them to open the shel themselves before I help? or should I even help?
One Pipped last night sometime around 10:30 but just barely cracked the shell should I be concerned about it? there are a couple of others this morning like that and one with a very clear hole in the shell. I hear chirping but it is hard to tell where it is coming from. I am trying to stay out of the incubator but I am a nervous Mom

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Give the chick some time though, usually the chick will rest about 24 hrs because it takes an effort for the little chick!

Congrats on the baby!!

 

[MyShunshyn]

Well, I have been good and left everyone alone and they seem to be doing great, we have 6 moved to the brooder and another 5 still in the incubator getting dry and fluffy.
Still a few more eggs to hatch out. They technically are not even really due to hatch til tomorrow so I think I should quit worrying... LOL