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Pipping!
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:18 pm
by starmum2000
Sorry for the completely random topic but I have 12 quail eggs in my incubator, tomorrow is hatch day and they are pipping! I'm very excited so sharing the news with everyone who'll listen, and you are a captive audience
At lunch time, 2 of them had very small cracks, and now 9 of them have almost pipped and are shaking and cheeping.
Progress is very slow at this stage but I'm reluctant to go to bed in case I miss anything.
If you've never home hatched before its a wonderful experience, they just look like random eggs until you hear the tiny cheeping noises just before hatch, then the wobbling, then the gradual pipping of the shell & emerging as a new little life into the world
Sorry for the waffle, I 'll go back to my egg-watching now...
Starmum ~*~
Re: Pipping!
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:21 pm
by Fran17
How lovely. My friend just showed me the video of her four little chicks breaking out of their shells. Her children were delighted. Enjoy the rest of your evening. I hope they don't keep you up too late.
Re: Pipping!
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:25 pm
by bondgirl
Awwww - happy hatching!
(and a new word to add to DS's 11+ vocab list - pipping
) Let us know how it goes x
Re: Pipping!
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:28 pm
by Guest55
Sounds really cute
Primary schools can hire kits for hatching hens eggs ...
Re: Pipping!
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:33 pm
by starmum2000
Ah, Bondgirl, always an educational aspect on EPE!
Guest 55... hatching in my Nursery class is what started me off about 4 years ago! I haven't room for any more chickens which is why I've switched to quail
Re: Pipping!
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:56 pm
by Looking for help
Oh this sounds so lovely...wish I had some chickens to hatch
I've never heard of pipping before either.
Re: Pipping!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:19 am
by Waiting_For_Godot
Takes me back to my snake breeding days, watching them hatch!
Re: Pipping!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:30 am
by Looking for help
Waiting_For_Godot wrote:Takes me back to my snake breeding days, watching them hatch!
Hmmmm I draw the line at snakes....YUK
Re: Pipping!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:01 am
by programmer
Looking for help wrote:Waiting_For_Godot wrote:Takes me back to my snake breeding days, watching them hatch!
Hmmmm I draw the line at snakes....YUK
Come on! snakes are wonderful. They have only one rule, you don't bother them so they don't bother you.
Re: Pipping!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:18 am
by Waiting_For_Godot
My third batch were mutants though. Incubation period of 189 days instead of 60-90. I assumed they were dead but my cut said that they were still alive. They came out half the length and twice the width with no taper so they looked like a worm. They were the most aggressive snakes I'd ever come across - corn snakes are not aggressive. I I'd lose a few....
Ealing, if anyone's wondering...
I'm sure they got eaten by rats, if not they'll be five feet long now!