Waiting for pips!

[QuackerOats]

I was staring into my incubator today and I kept seeing the eggs moving. After a bit of hard listening, I even heard a few peeps! Its day 20, so they could pip any minute now! Its driving me insane!

I want to see my chicks!

Who else is waiting for pipping!?

 

[guinea fowl galore]

I am. Mine started wobbling yesterday morning. 24+ hours and still no pips

 

[goldnchocolate]

Get your camera ready. I had a couple of small pips this morning but those haven't even hatched yet. It was a few of the others that pipped and zipped in a matter of minutes!!! So when you least expect it and you look away, for a second or two....a chick will hatch and you will have missed it.

 

[4-H chicken mom]

 

[QuackerOats]

Oh! A camera, thats an excellent idea! I should film the event.

I keep checking the incubator every 5 or so minutes hoping for some action! I hope they don't mind my flashlight I keep shining in there to see properly.... I'm not sure if I will be able to sleep tonight!

 

[goldnchocolate]

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My newly hatched chicks seem to like the light from the flashlight, in fact they seem to move to get into the light. I'll leave a light on in that room tonight so they won't be scared

I'm going to try to go to bed but I'm not sure when that will be. I haven't gotten much done today because of all the time I have spent just staring into the incubator.

 

[cashdl]

My incubator is in my green house and I get up several times a night run out in my robe to check on eggs. The sound of the fan was driving the family crazy at night, I wonder if the squeeking door is worse for them every time I go out to check. After reading of tales about chicks hatching early I have been driving myself crazy. Today is only day 18 and they probably will be late just because I was ready for them to be early.

Lanae

 

[Morag]

I'm on day 19, my first hatch failed, this is my second, 7 eggs all looked good at lock down. Can't stop looking in the bator but nothing going on yet, not even a wiggle.

 

[QuackerOats]

If I had known the incubator was going to be so noisy, I probably would have put it somewhere else too. However I love being close to it to hear them!

Its now day 21 here and I've got two pips. They started three hours ago and they don't have much progress yet... I can't see them yet. They keep peeping!

 

[SunnyChic]

I'm waiting for pips, too! I've got 18 eggs on lockdown. My incubator is in a large closet by my computer; I love having it there where I can hear the activity while I'm on the computer. I just heard peeping a few minutes ago.