One has PIPPED!/HATCHED!!! Update...

[Chicken_Girl]

ooooooo yay for you, post pics when s/he is dry

fingers crossed

for the others

 

[speckledhen]

Ok, Jill. Are you awake? How are you feeling? Any more chickies out yet???? We're all waiting, girl!

 

[mom'sfolly]

tap...tap...tap go the toes as we wait. Hope those chickies are tap tapping too. We gotta have pictures of Suede's babies!!!!

 

[thndrdancr]

Nothing, can you believe it? Johny on the Spot there running around all by its lonesome self. Quite a lil character tho, s/he keeps pecking at his own toes, the other eggs, the wire to the water wiggler, the eggshells, so funny. He is THE ugliest baby I have ever seen. Sorry, Cyn.

Not even a pip from the others yet. I know, I am tapping toes too...I have to go to work sometime in the next 3 days...but I am pretty fascinated here...
Jill

 

[speckledhen]

Jill, here is his mother, my sweet Lexie, pre-rooster, pre-molt, so you can see he/she will really be a cutie after it's completely fluffed out! And his/her daddy, Hawkeye, with his Art Deco comb, courtesy of a big bad turkey.

 

[thndrdancr]

Cyn, they really are pretty. I hope I didnt offend you, and I am sure when finished fluffing we mite be prettier, but this might be case of the ugly duckling!

I know she will be gorgeous when grown, she just HAS to be to make up for what she looks like now. (got hit with the ugly stick), poor babe.

 

[speckledhen]

Newly hatched chicks are pretty ugly at first, LOL. Didn't offend me at all! Is it fluffing out well or still looks sticky? By midday, I'd say you could, if you wanted to, grab the baby out quickly so you don't lose humidity and put it in the brooder. You can, however, let him stay in all day. It'll be fine in there.

 

[jimnjay]

Well Dang! I figured you would have more babies overnight. It always happens that way for me. It actually take quite a load off as you spend an inordinate amount of time watching the incubator and worndering what is going on in there.

Come on Eggies, Hatch for Jill.

 

[thndrdancr]

Well, my water weasel temps went down this morn to about 97.7 for about 4 hours, will that hurt anything? I couldnt take a reading cuz the baby keeps perching/sleeping on my temp gauge! Hoping that will be ok, I guess if no more hatch by this eve, I will take him out of there, he looks so lonesome and I think it may be a lil hot at incubation temps. He was one of the ones closest to the flashin light, so his egg probably was hotter than some of the others, so they may take a bit.

Keepin fingers crossed!
Jill

 

[speckledhen]

With the way your temps have been jumping all over, it could slow down the hatch some. And you are right, there are cooler and warmer areas inside every bator.
I just got word this afternoon from my friend Kate, who hatched three of them, that one of Lexie's daughters has started laying. This is what she said about the egg:

The one that's laying lays a perfectly smooth, glossy finished creamy milk chocolate egg - much darker than my girls.​