Saturday, March 30, 2013

Day 21

The hatching started last night, about about 9:30, says my parents.  A cute little brown chick arrived.  This morning there were 4 chicks in the incubator, with another pipped and working on it.  Throughout the day we had many chicks hatch, as we are now at 13 chicks!  I watched 3 chicks hatch out of their eggs!  It was super cool.  For the third one, I helped by shining the light on it, which made it break out of the shell (it was a bit stuck).

We've taken a few photos of the hatchings and will post in a bit.

Since we had so many hatched chicks in the incubator, we moved some of the nice dry, fluffy chicks out of the incubator, and into a cage.  We did this to stop them from shuffling the other eggs, which haven't hatched yet.  They are all snug under the heat light, eating and drinking.

I was up early this morning (6 am) to check on them, and so I need to go to bed now.  Looking forward to see how many chicks hatch tonight, and the Easter Bunny coming!

Cheeping... peeping... still cooking... and oh so CUTE!

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