November Hatch-A-Long (2014)

[Antiquity]

And we have a pip in egg #2. Little peeper is learning that he can wiggle.

 

[Kaylish]

Yay! Little Peeper has kicked himself off of the last bit of his shell. He's still attached by a bit of membrane/egg white/whatever, but yay anyway! His twin egg has dark shadows at the high point of it's air cell indicating that it's moving into position to pip internally. I'm so gosh darn excited I can't even, I don't know what, shucks. 

Also, the last candling of batch #2 occurred this evening and 11/11 of them are alive.   

Yea! So awesome when they start doing it themselves after assistance.

The first of the lavender orpingtons is out! She's an obnoxious little thing. I was in bed early and all the cheeping got me up to check.

So cute!

We are now about 8 hours into day 19 and I went in about a half hour ago to check temp and humidity and I noticed we already have an egg that is pipped!! The hole in the membrane isn't quite big enough for me to see much, at first I wasn't sure if anything was even alive, but I grabbed my phone and fired up my youtube video of baby chicks peeping and yup, it started wobbling when it heard that! lol Oh, I hope it hatches out alright!!! No sleep for me for the next couple nights....I feel sorry for my son....lol So excited!!!   Baby tomorrow! 

Wonderful news! I know I'll be watching eggs closely when day 19 is here.  At least I have the bater set up in the laundry room, It will allow me to start folding that pile of laundry I've been trying to get to for 3 days!  It is now officially day 18 for me and I'm getting more and more antsy. Yesterday all of my eggs started rocking after I turned them and I was so excited I stared at them for at least 15 minutes! 
  All these new babies that everyone has and are getting make me wish I could be there with you so we could all be crazy together, LOL.  Hope ya'll get some rest.

Right there with you, going to candle and lockdown tonight.

Two babies just hatched from my group of 6 eggs. These two pipped this morning and are now sleeping off the hatch. One of them keeps runnin to my hand like I'm mother hen and she'll fall asleep snuggled in my hand. So cute!!
Also, had a deformed chick hatch as well (well I helped it, knew something was up)- it was born with no upper beak or eyes, instead it had a large mass of tissue growing on its head. I'll post about it or start a new thread about that one.
Got 3 more babies I'll be checking on all night still in their eggs. 2 moving around and 1 I haven't seen any movement from but I'm still hopefull.
Happy hatching everyone!

Little snuggle is adorable, sorry about the deformed one. Hope the rest hatch healthy.

And we have a pip in egg #2. Little peeper is learning that he can wiggle.

Yea!

 

[MaryAnn I]

Yea! So awesome when they start doing it themselves after assistance.
So cute!

Right there with you, going to candle and lockdown tonight.
Little snuggle is adorable, sorry about the deformed one. Hope the rest hatch healthy.
Yea!

Does this chicken need help?

 

[Sustained]

The first of the lavender orpingtons is out! She's an obnoxious little thing. I was in bed early and all the cheeping got me up to check.

So sweet!! Congrats on your obnoxious little lady

Two babies just hatched from my group of 6 eggs. These two pipped this morning and are now sleeping off the hatch. One of them keeps runnin to my hand like I'm mother hen and she'll fall asleep snuggled in my hand. So cute!!
Also, had a deformed chick hatch as well (well I helped it, knew something was up)- it was born with no upper beak or eyes, instead it had a large mass of tissue growing on its head. I'll post about it or start a new thread about that one.
Got 3 more babies I'll be checking on all night still in their eggs. 2 moving around and 1 I haven't seen any movement from but I'm still hopefull.
Happy hatching everyone!

Heart melting isn't it when they snuggle like that? So adorable!! Congrats!

And we have a pip in egg #2. Little peeper is learning that he can wiggle.

Congrats!!! Yay little peeper!

 

[Sustained]

Well, yesterday was hatch day for my coturnix quail. I haven't seen so much as a wiggle yet. I did candle them once out of curiosity and found several with cracks in them that I couldn't see without the light shining into them. I guess shipping wasn't kind to them but who knows. I know some of them had veining that I could see through the spots on the shell. That was last week though. So I'm wondering if I will have any hatch at this point.

 

[annas orps]

@junibutt, We had a big fat zero hatch rate :-/ Disappointing!

We're planning on getting hold of some fertile eggs in the Spring so won't be hatching again until then.

 

[Antiquity]

Well egg #2 appears to be as malpositioned as his little buddy was. He hasn't pipped into the air cell at all but straight through the side of the egg, and his tiny beak is right there. My chickens are like me, they @$%#& everything up. Just do everything the wrong darn way and make it work! Anyway. it's only five hours in and he's still cheeping and breathing so I'm just going to let him be for now.

Little Peeper is starting to fluff up a little bit. His shell remnant has come off and he's starting to stand and wave his head around shakily, so I'd say the little bugger is out of the woods.

 

[Junibutt]

@junibutt, We had a big fat zero hatch rate :-/ Disappointing!

We're planning on getting hold of some fertile eggs in the Spring so won't be hatching again until then.

Sorry to hear about that. Could it be the fertility issue with the Orps? Sorry I forgot what eggs you had set.

 

[Antiquity]

@annas orps I'm sorry. How frustrating. I was really looking forward to yours. I love orpingtons.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Well egg #2 appears to be as malpositioned as his little buddy was. He hasn't pipped into the air cell at all but straight through the side of the egg, and his tiny beak is right there. My chickens are like me, they @$%#& everything up. Just do everything the wrong darn way and make it work! Anyway. it's only five hours in and he's still cheeping and breathing so I'm just going to let him be for now.

Little Peeper is starting to fluff up a little bit. His shell remnant has come off and he's starting to stand and wave his head around shakily, so I'd say the little bugger is out of the woods.

My second pipper pipped right smack dab in the middle too. No where near the air cell...lol He's doing fine in there from what I can tell. I think he's black and yellow and looks like he has a huge beak....lol The other 6 have pipped exactly where they needed to. Only one has a tiny hole that you can detect anything the other 5 have good size pips, but they haven't pipped out enough to knock the shell from the hole so I can see anything. This sitting on our hands is for the birds!!!

I shouldn't complain though, because we don't actually officially hit day 20 for another hour, and I didn't really expect anything until tonight so I'm lucky that they are even this far already. Time to go sit and wait some more. Good luck everyone!!!!!