Setting Eggs 12/28 - Hatching Buddies? Hatch-Along

This morning, my son woke me out of a dead sleep to tell me he heard chirping. Considering day 21 doesn't even start til tomorrow night, I thought he was imagining things. Well, I checked my incubator and 3 of my eggs have pipped! My eggs are NEVER early. Like ever. They usually start popping out about halfway through day 21. Honestly, I figured they'd all start hatching in the middle of the night Fri- Sat.

I want to get the webcam set up. To make the setup work right, I use a very old, very decrepit laptop to run the webcam- it takes a lot of juice and slows down my (only slightly less geriatric) newish laptop. However, we did a huge overhaul on our wireless network last weekend, and I think some settings on the old laptop need to be changed. This would be challenging under the best of circumstances, but I have a pretty awful cold right now, and am not thinking clearly.

Anyway, hopefully I'll outsmart it soon. If I don't, dh will fix it when he gets home tonight- he's the computer whiz.
 
Hooray! How exciting. I hope you get the cam up, I need something to distract myself while mine mosey along.
 
I outsmarted it! Camera is live! A fourth egg pipped. The fourth egg to pip was an egg that sat in my fridge for at least 8-9 days before I decided to put it in the incubator. So, it's pretty amazing that it's hatching.
 
Yay! Now I want to go home from work early just to check on my eggs, too! Lol! Take lots of pics when they hatch!
 
Aaaaaaah! Just got home from work, and one of my eggs has pipped, too! A whole day early, just like yours did Sphinx! Go little guy, come on out!
 
One of them's out! Too cute :D

And he's chirping up a storm just looking at his beak going! I wonder if it's lonely to be the first one hatched, haha.
 
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SHE (ha ha) is like a cheerleader to get the others going.

I left my house at 3:50 to go show a house (I'm a realtor) and they were all barely pipped. My daughter texted me at 4:30 to announce it had hatched. I was shocked!

A second one is starting to zip. I think it'll be out soon.

I've NEVER had chicks hatch early, and this is crazy early. No idea what I did differently.

Congrats on your pip, DraigAthar!
 
Hooray, another! Can you tell if they're pure legbars at this point or are they too damp?
 
I went to put the hatched chicks in the brooder and discovered a fourth chick had hatched! Wow. At this point, they all look like they're half black copper marans, half legbar. I have to admit I'm a little disappointed; I was really hoping for a couple of pure legbars. Once I separate my laying hens out this spring, I'll definitely try again.

One of the chicks already has a very prominent comb, I wonder if he's a cockerel?

The three remaining eggs are all pipped.
 

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