Rock and Roll Eggs - First Hatch

[paddyro]

I'm on Day 20 of my first incubation with 11 beautiful eggs - marans, ameraucana, auricana, sussex and wyandotte. I've candled them up until now, and all are growing well. Lock-down is KILLING me!! I'm such a dork - I've been bawking to them all day. My husband thinks I've gone off the deep end!

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Anyway, as I've been ogling them, a couple of them have wiggled. I know this is normal, but should they all be doing it? Or, are they just being sneaking their antics when I'm not watching??

I'm a human embryologist and make babies for a living. I will feel like a complete and utter failure if they don't hatch!!! Worse yet, what if I start cheeping to my people embryos in the IVF lab?? Surely, they will commit me. (Hopefully, somewhere with chickens).

 

[sourland]

Step away from the incubator! Take a deep breath, one aspirin, retreat to bed and check on things in the morning.

 

[BIsme]

I'm on day 20 as well! But your growth rate seems much better than mine! I had 12 eggs and only five were growing! HAHAHA! I peep and bawk at mine too! I haven't seen any of mine wiggle... Now I'm worried! Silkie chickens... Such small eggs...

Good luck to you! Sending you moral support! Let me know how it goes, Kay?

 

[SarniaTricia]

Clucking and Cheeping at the eggs is normal....
DO NOT open the Bator... let them do their thing...
Find something else to do. I find setting so I am at work on hatch day is best for everyone.

We all cluck and chirp at the eggs on hatch day.
I also move them to the bathroom, so I can unload fuzzy chicks with high heat and humidity. (steam up the bath before I open the bator)
Otherwise just let them be until they all hatch.

Good luck
Good hatching vibes coming your way!
Patricia

 

[paddyro]

OK, whew! UGH!!! This is like being pregnant all over again!!!

 

[paddyro]

@BISME - We need to have a Chicken Egg Hatching Anxiety Support Group. Like watching water boil...

 

[paddyro]

OMG!!!! I think I just heard a cheep!!!!!! OK, it was either that or the inubator fan needs greasing... But I think it was a cheep!!!!

 

[BIsme]

@BISME - We need to have a Chicken Egg Hatching Anxiety Support Group. Like watching water boil...

No joking! I think I'm going to have a stroke! I just want to dump them out of their little shells already! I mean, you have bonded with them by turning them, and candling them, now you can't even OPEN the bator!! I hope you heard a peep! I'm still waiting for mine... Keep us posted! You're giving me hope! Hahaha!

 

[paddyro]

WE HAVE A PIP!!!!!!! So, I'm sitting there, singing chicken opera to my eggs, my hub is secretly videoing me so he can have a laugh. All of a sudden, a little triangle budge appeared on one of my Light Sussex eggs!! I squeal and start jumping up and down, and my husband is rolling because he preserved the whole thing for posterity! How can I POSSIBLY go to bed now????

 

[Twizzlebee]

I have a brand new pip too! Race to see which one hatches first? xD I don't sing to mine, does it work? It's peeping and the egg is moving! haha

I'm not sleeping tonight. Can already tell.