I have 23 Silkie, sebright, and mixed bantam eggs on day 20. They are pipping through the air sac. Hopefully I will wake up to some chicks or some pips.
I am on day 16 and holding my breath. One egg is def. viable and one other MIGHT be. I have hated to even mention them from fear of something going wrong. I think that box arriving with a crushed bottom did too much damage to the insides of those eggs. Keeping my fingers crossed for a cockeral and a pullet..
All will right with my world then.
We have had some pretty bad storms including tornadoes come through southern Missouri and northern Arkansas heading straight east. Watch out everyone. We were lucky and they stayed just south of us with the exception of hail and rain.
I got up early this morning to check the incubator...day 20...and there's one pip. I should have stayed in bed! Now I'm just hovering around, anxious, worried something's not right, it's not going to break out of it's shell, it's going to die because it's too hot in there or something, etc, etc.
I was talking with someone about imprinting, how the first thing the chick sees, it's going to think is it's mum. Joking around--"So...what if it imprints on the egg carton...or the thermometer...what if the cat looks in and they imprint on the cat?" But I'm quite sure it's going to see my big face staring down at it through the incubator window!
I played "eye of the tiger" for them, to cheer them on.