Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[superchemicalgirl]

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Yes I love them too, and I think they're beautiful. I have 2 hens and a roo. All my "backyard" chickens came from that roo, so I'm hoping to have a lot of turken babies today and tomorrow!

 

[Granny Hoffman]

Woke up to 2 pips this morning, one is on the wrong end though.

 

[Hens and Roos]

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Give it some more time, ours that pipped yesterday afternoon didn't hatch until this am around 5:30, I know with ours they make the first break in the egg and then work on the underside unzipping

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[featherz]

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X2 featherz I guess we can hold each other's hands through this while everyone else starts getting chicks! I don't even hear any peeping and goodness knows I have been trying to encourage them by tapping on the incubator. Does that even work?

No peeping, no rocking, no nothing here. I know they are (or were) alive in there.. I'm not concerned yet - I'll start worrying if no pips by this evening.. Maybe I'll get a chick out at midnight! (although as I said earlier, it better be out by 12:01 or I'm going to sleep..

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[Hens and Roos]

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X2 featherz I guess we can hold each other's hands through this while everyone else starts getting chicks! I don't even hear any peeping and goodness knows I have been trying to encourage them by tapping on the incubator. Does that even work?

No peeping, no rocking, no nothing here. I know they are (or were) alive in there.. I'm not concerned yet - I'll start worrying if no pips by this evening.. Maybe I'll get a chick out at midnight! (although as I said earlier, it better be out by 12:01 or I'm going to sleep..

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with our hatches we don't see much rocking or hear anything until they start pipping the shells and then it's hit and miss-ours seem to like the surprise element-one minute nothing and the next a chick..

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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X2 featherz I guess we can hold each other's hands through this while everyone else starts getting chicks! I don't even hear any peeping and goodness knows I have been trying to encourage them by tapping on the incubator. Does that even work?

No peeping, no rocking, no nothing here. I know they are (or were) alive in there.. I'm not concerned yet - I'll start worrying if no pips by this evening.. Maybe I'll get a chick out at midnight! (although as I said earlier, it better be out by 12:01 or I'm going to sleep..

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Hopefully this makes you feel better: the chick that was crazy rocking and rolling last night was not either of the 2 that were pipped when I woke up. I saw NO movement from those 2 eggs prior to this morning.

 

[RareBreedFancier]

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Yep, and happily you only put crowns in one specific orifice.

Good day today. From 6:30AM up to 1:30 PM I did at least 8 prophys, 6 fillings. 2 crowns and 1 three unit bridge. About $6,000 worth of work. Great way to end 2010. I may be able to afford chicken feed now.

What pray tell is a prophys? Or do I not want to know...?

EDIT: Don't worry, Google is my friend, I know now lol
(Probably would have realized too if I hadn't had a bottle of bubbly for NYE.

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[dsqard]

I just need to get out of the house for a while and stop worrying.

I probably wouldn't be so worried if everyone else (well it seems like everyone else

) wasn't already getting pips, zips and chicks. I know just breathe deep and stay calm! I am trying but this is my first time incubating so

come on chickies it is time to come out and play!

 

[Hens and Roos]

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It is especially exciting and hard to wait for the chicks to hatch, we still have fun everytime we hatch... in fact we are collecting eggs for the next round. Our hatches always are on the early side of things,

to you!

It's also very exciting for our dogs too(they're Irish Setters) one is crated in the same room as the incubator and has been whining up a storm now

 

[dsqard]

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I figure the dogs will know before me if the chicks start peeping. When they follow me in to where the bator is I look at them to see if they are reacting.

I am really not too worried yet just nervous. Thank you for the good wishes and congrats on the babies you have out so far!