My Eggs from Sonew arrived!! I HAVE A BABY!!!!!!!!!

[blessedchickenmama7]

LOL, I had to get up with hubby at 3:30 for work and I fell asleep for a bit after he left with my head by the bator, so yes, I was sleeping to the cheeps! Sorry.

I still have one pip. She's (can you tell I'm thinking hen) knocked one a piece of her shell off, but I can not see into the egg. I can only see white.

There's a good deal of cheeping going on, and I'm pretty sure it's more than her or she's very persistent and constant at it.

I haven't seen anymore movement of other eggs in the times I checked.

 

[texasgal]

Come on chicks!

 

[KKatknap]

Don'tcha just hate when real-life interferes?!

Go chickies!!!

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

Still just the one pip. It doesn't seem like the membrane has a hole, yet it somehow knocked the shell off. I still hear some chirping but not as much as before...

Is this normal, to see the membrane still intact like that? And it's been 7 hours since the shell broke open!!!

 

[MagsC]

I hope everything goes well! I have had chicks take up to a day to hatch?

 

[texasgal]

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I don't know .. but I would be biting my fingernails to the nubbs ...

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

#14, another olive egg is trying to pip on the side. A nice little white crack has appeared in the very middle of the egg. The other pip is closer to the top but kind of on the side, too.

So that's three olive eggs that I am pretty sure are alive. #16 pipped, #13 wiggling, and #14 with a crack, not quite a pip yet.

Everybody else: nothing yet, but hoping.

 

[texasgal]

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I think if we have pips and cracks we can be pretty CERTAIN they are alive ...

 

[flgardengirl]

I have noticed if you whistle to them once they pip the shell it sometimes encourages them to keep zipping.

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

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I think if we have pips and cracks we can be pretty CERTAIN they are alive ...

Yeah, you are right!!! WOOOHOOOO!!