Mid July Harry Potter Hatch-a-long

[CrazyForMyPeeps802]

Let's go Harry Potter chickies! It's time for y'all to start to pip and zip!
Let's go Dumbledore!

 

[Bigdumogre]

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Luna is the olive egg on the left, Neville is on the right. Both are OEs

I can hear soft cheeping coming from somewhere pretty regularly.

Accio!!!
Who doesn't love harry potter spells lol

 

[Buffy-Featherington]

Let's go Harry Potter chickies! It's time for y'all to start to pip and zip!
Let's go Dumbledore!

Dumbledore just pipped!

 

[Buffy-Featherington]

Dumbledore and Fluffy also have pipped!

That’s 5 of 6 of the Olive Eggers

No BCMs have pipped. I’m not sure if it’s a breed specific thing? Like maybe they tend to start a little later. Asking the hatchery if that’s the case.

 

[CrazyForMyPeeps802]

Dumbledore just pipped!

Way to go Dumbledore!

 

[Slothinc]

I have heard that BCM can be a little more difficult to regulate humidity with due to the thicker coating of color “painted” onto the eggshell. Hopefully they will pip soon!! Are they so dark that you can’t see in them when candling?

 

[Buffy-Featherington]

I have heard that BCM can be a little more difficult to regulate humidity with due to the thicker coating of color “painted” onto the eggshell. Hopefully they will pip soon!! Are they so dark that you can’t see in them when candling?

Thank you! That does make sense.
Chatted with the owner of the hatchery, and she said it’s not uncommon - in her last batch, the BCMs took a day later to pip.

I candled them before lockdown - 3 of them I could faintly make out veins, and the fourth was on the edge. But all had nice big air cells, so I have hope for all of them.

 

[Buffy-Featherington]

DOBBY IS ZIPPING!

 

[BoundlessLove]

Go Dobby!

 

[Buffy-Featherington]

Dobby is out!!

DOBBY IS A FREE ELF (chick)!

looks like Fluffy is next to hatch

Dobby is busy harassing him to hurry up, in between exhausted flails