Who is pipping and waiting right now??

[ozark hen]

Well, I am on day 22 and still nothing on one viable (looked full when candling it)egg I have left from the post office basket ball game or whatever they used the box for. Could have even been socker the way the bottom of the box was crushed. Eggs were fine as they were wrapped with extra care but I think that man-handling is just too much for eggs when they get that rough.

I am holding out a few more days...just in case.

 

[pips&peeps]

All three of the sebbie eggs I was waiting on pipped yesterday and I am just waiting for them to come on out......

 

[dusti]

I just had 3 of my banty eggs hatch 2 days ago now I have 15 cuckoo marans eggs on day 21 today. I have one that has pipped but no others. So I'm waiting.

 

[mountainman]

Hi y'all,
I am on day 19 and have 1 chick 1 pip ans 78 more to go. I have 18 silkie and cochin eggs (shipped) and the rest are golden comets. I can't wait to see the first silkie!!!! I need to be building my new coop, but I just cant stop looking in the bator!!

Kelly

 

[Mrs MIA]

Me again!!!

Just before bed last night, hubby looked in on the coturnix quail eggs... "hey honey... does that look like a pip?"

I think he did it on purpose.

Well, this morning there are a LOT of pips... no chicks yet, but when I went to check the humidity on the OTHER hatcher, one of my bobwhite eggs has a pip! A day early!

Playing "musical chicks" this morning... need to move the chicks that hatched last week to the garage and make room for quail!!!

 

[joebryant]

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Hmmm, it turned out that I couldn't wait. I had 13 in the incubator running around, climbing over eggs and shells. They were getting hurt. I took them out about 2 P.M. and put them in the brooder. The incubator quickly returned to 99.5 degrees, and about an hour later another baby hatched. As soon as he dried I put him with the others in the brooder. They're all happy as larks walking and lying on their towel, eating and drinking to their hearts' content; life's good.
I'm leaving the incubator on until tomorrow just in case one of the ten eggs hatch, but I'm not expecting any of them to; however, you never know if you don't know how to candle them. Guess I'll see tomorrow.

Ended the adventure with 15 beautiful babies. They're all in the brooder box drinking, smoking, eating, and having a merry old time.
Cleaning the Brower was a snap. I just took it outside and hosed it down to remove the small fragments of eggshells. Then I took it to the laundry room's large sink, filled the sink half full of hot water, poured in some liquid bleach, and used a small towel to wash off/sanitize the eight triangle divider section, the black plastic screen under it, the lid, and the large, round gray "tub" thingamajig (whatever it's called).
Put everything back together, turned the lid upside down, and everything slid right back into the box it came in along with the chopstick, extra light bulbs, funnel/straw dohinky, etc. I'm going to make a note on the box lid that says, "WARNING: BE SURE THE INCUBATOR IS RIGHT-SIDE-UP WHEN YOU REMOVE IT FROM THE BOX. NEVER LET THE RED BOTTOM BE UPSIDE DOWN; OTHERWISE, THE SMALL BALL BEARINGS UNDER THE LARGER BALL BEARINGS WILL FALL OUT AND BE LOST, I.E., BE SUPER-CAREFUL WHEN OPENING THIS BOX." I just now copied what I typed there and made a Word document with large print size and printed three copies to put on the box

 

[coopist]

I'm waiting on quail too, Mrs. Bird Brain. Here are the first two Bobwhite hatchlings out today. Others are pipped.

 

[Mrs MIA]

OMG! They are so cute!!! C'mon, babies!!!

This is my first BW, from my first pair of birds...

I'm so excited!!

Now... where to put them...

 

[coopist]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

Now... where to put them...

LOL, I know what you mean! Working on that one myself.

Hope yours hatch soon.​

 

[ozark hen]

Well, nothing here yet from my "special " egg but I went to check on the mallard who is sitting on eggs outside in the flower bed and lo and behold I heard a cheeping noise. I lifted her up and found an egg with a pip in it so I took it away from her. Mine!!!

I put it in the incubator and now I have a tiny buff orpington/mix!

Now I am confused...I thought she was sitting on duck eggs??

Tomorrow when it is light out I am going back and check on those eggs and see exactly what is in her nest.