OMG OMG OMG I have a PIP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ChooksChick]

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OK i confess...i gots the bug!!!I promise no touchy!!!! I can't WAIT to get home only 3 1/2 more hours!!! I am sooooooooo excited!!!

Do i need to be worried about the humidity spike as they are hatching??

No, don't worry about that. At this stage you only worry if it dips below 60% or so. You just need to watch and know you have 2 days before you really can do anything but steal them out of there super fast...unless they're all done. It's the part that kills even the most experienced hatchers...we all have to make ourselves go grocery shopping and whatnot to keep from touching. It's brutal!! They can take 36 hours to go from pip to pop, and it tries even the most patient.

 

[Chickiebabyfluff]

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OK i confess...i gots the bug!!!I promise no touchy!!!! I can't WAIT to get home only 3 1/2 more hours!!! I am sooooooooo excited!!!

Do i need to be worried about the humidity spike as they are hatching??

No, don't worry about that. At this stage you only worry if it dips below 60% or so. You just need to watch and know you have 2 days before you really can do anything but steal them out of there super fast...unless they're all done. It's the part that kills even the most experienced hatchers...we all have to make ourselves go grocery shopping and whatnot to keep from touching. It's brutal!! They can take 36 hours to go from pip to pop, and it tries even the most patient.

Thank you for telling me this i didn't know about the 2 day thing. I dunno if its the mommie instinct or what but it IS brutal to keep from touching!!! i keep telling myself i will get to hold and cuddle them in a few days

Chooks i love your website really good info!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

2 pips this morning and a chorus of peeps, they're due out 9 pm tomorrow. My fingers are crossed, bent a few rules.

 

[Chickiebabyfluff]

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YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!! I LOVE the sound of the new baby chirps!!!! Lil piece of heaven i think!! Gratz on your hatch!!!

You have blue jersey giants??? OoOOO I bet they's pretty!!!! I think i will hafta look into gettin some of those!!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I had 3 Blue JG but I recently sold the 2 best colored pullets (wonderful blue) and kept the big girl cause she was true JG size. I had to downsize - wanted to keep the nice colored ones but since I didn't have a Bl JG rooster and have so many other varieties, I let them go. They came from Sandhill. Their White JGs are real nice too.

This is my first incubation and with a free trash incubator too.

 

[Chickiebabyfluff]

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Awesome!!! On the free trash bator!!!!

 

[Chickiebabyfluff]

Well i am home and nothing. THe pip looks the same as it did when i left this morning and there are no other pips tht i can see....does tht mean the one gave up already?

How long from pip to hatch is too long?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

My first pip did nothing for 12 hours, 1 hour later chick out. The other 22 eggs still only 1 pip.

 

[Chickiebabyfluff]

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Well i think they all should be out and running around now

Oy i'm gettin eye strain from lookin in the bator glass looking for any action whatsoever....wiggling or something sheesh!!! Keep me posted on your hatch!!! Gratz on your one baby!!!!

 

[nurseshelly]

I got my first pip last night, and it didn't hatch until late morning. A different one hatched first, at 9:30am, who had just pipped at 5am - that one must have been in a hurry! I have 4 out and 10 to go