We B Hatching!
At about 10:00pm last night I noticed I had a couple of pips.
Then at about 4:00 this morning the first chick hatched and the second pip was now a hole with a beak peeking through every few seconds. At 5:00 am I noticed two more pips so I figured I'd go to bed for a little while so the first could dry and I'd wake up to more chicks. Got up at 10:00 am and no more had hatched. Plus #2 didn't look much different than it did at 5:00
About 2:30 pm chick still not zipping normally, instead looks like it's just trying to break out. Through the whole hatch process it never zipped, just continued stretching untill it finally broke open!
Here's some progress shots.
First hatched - bad lighting on pic
Chick #1 now in brooder and lonely.
#2 at 2:30 pm
at 3:00 pm really began working it!
about 10 minutes later
Then 5 minutes later... FINALLY!!
Now there's 4 more pipped. So far all are from my own eggs. These two are from our yard that white rocks and barred rocks run together. None of my shipped in eggs are showing any promise, well except one and I killed it while culling quitters on day 18 before lock down. I cracked it open to find a little live (black java) chick.
So far looks like about half of the original 41 eggs are duds.
Our first hatched totally re-arranged the eggs in the bator.
