Yes, I'm staggering around. I'm sooooo tired but I'm on cloud nine. Had to get up and get DD's breakfast, make her lunch and get her to school. I think I'm sleep walking.
Congratulations Cyn, on the 13 babies! I will be following the rest of your hatch. Can't wait to see all the varieties.
OK, here's the update.
DH helped whistle out egg#6 first. I called him the Master Hatcher, b/c he's been doing this since he was about 7 yrs old. I thought geeze, why couldn't he come whistle sooner. I was down there by myself for the majority of the hatch. DD had a ton of homework & dh was watching the baseball game.
Egg#6 acted like a cheer leader chirping it's little head off, scooting all around the incubator, bowling it's siblings over and resting on pipped eggs encouraging them to come out and play. She's a silvery color. She is beautiful!
I took some time to rest my eyes and went back down to check on them and egg#2, 3, & 4 were zipping. The cheer leader was really doing her job.
I'm to tired to remember what order, but they all hatched right after each other. Yahooooo!!!!!!!
They all look to be darker or blue color.
Their zipping wasn't a clean cut around the diameter of the egg, but in slashes w/ bits of membrane holding them in place until they could find the strengh to explode right out of their shell.
I went to bed worried about egg#5 that had pipped on the bottom. It's siblings had bowling it all around. I feared it would be disoriented or would get smothered by one of them laying across it's small pipped air hole. DH assured me it would be ok and I was so proud of myself for resisting to help. I wanted to so bad!
I went down to the basement to check on them at 6:30 am and to my surprise egg#5 had hatched sometime in the wee morning hours. She is very light.
Egg #5 chick is not quite dry and they are all still in the incubator, but will get pictures soon.
They are all gorgeous!
