The 10th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!!

[igorsMistress]

The struggle is real...lol

It is!! If it helps, I still have 4 eggs in the incubator and only 3 have pips.

 

[Velvet Sparrow]

My eggs are pipping! Seven pips so far, 22 eggs in the incubator, I saw embryos in 19 of them (the other three have dark shells I can't candle through). We expect hatching to begin later today!
I update the Chickam Twitter here: https://twitter.com/?logout=1555618634188
You can watch the Chickam hatch on YouTube here:

 

[LynnaePB]

Am I the only one slightly pissed off at my chicks that they are being perfectly normal and waiting til day 21 to hatch? Seeing all these day 19 chicks is making me want mine to hatch

Yes, I can sympathize!

 

[ronott1]

My eggs are pipping! Seven pips so far, 22 eggs in the incubator, I saw embryos in 19 of them (the other three have dark shells I can't candle through). We expect hatching to begin later today!
I update the Chickam Twitter here: https://twitter.com/?logout=1555618634188
You can watch the Chickam hatch on YouTube here:

 

[dpenning]

Does anyone else ever feel bad for the first chick hatched? Poor little thing is all alone and chirping away. Doesn't understand that I can't open the bator to snuggle with it. Hope one of the others hatches soon.

Yes! I had an early one last night. Two others pipped last night but haven’t made any progress. Three mire pipped this morning. I wish the 5 peppers would hurry up!

 

[ronott1]

Yes! I had an early one last night. Two others pipped last night but haven’t made any progress. Three mire pipped this morning. I wish the 5 peppers would hurry up!

How fun!

I hope the lonely one has friends soon

 

[igorsMistress]

4 eggs left. 2 zipping, 2 pipping. If they all hatch I'll have 100 hatch rate this time

 

[Jules929]

I am just now locking down, lol. The end of day 18 was at noon for my flock's eggs, and right now for the shipped eggs. I am glad that I have a 3 day weekend!

 

[Rammy]

So out of the 23 banty eggs I put in the incubator, only 7 made it to lockdown. The others werent fertile. Im very disappointed since the Ameracauna eggs werent fertile at all. Only one Blue Cochin was fertile out of 8, and the rest were Silver Duckwing. All seven hatched. I also have 9 Ancona Ducklings to hatch. Out of the 22 that started, only 14 made it to lockdown. 9 hatched. One piped but never made it out. I think it died after that. I wish I knew why that happens.

 

[Peep_Show]

Am I the only one slightly pissed off at my chicks that they are being perfectly normal and waiting til day 21 to hatch? Seeing all these day 19 chicks is making me want mine to hatch

The first time I hatched Marans they were all pokey-pokey chicks. The last chick of that batch hatched late on Day 23. BUT since bumping the incubator up a skootch I'm getting some Day 20 and -- Yay! -- mostly Day 21 hatchings. (Incubator at 100.1; hatcher at 100.) Very rarely are there holdovers to Day 22.