Pipping!
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Pipping!
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 ~*~
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 ~*~
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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.
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Awwww - happy hatching! (and a new word to add to DS's 11+ vocab list - pipping ) Let us know how it goes x
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Sounds really cute
Primary schools can hire kits for hatching hens eggs ...
Primary schools can hire kits for hatching hens eggs ...
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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
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
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Oh this sounds so lovely...wish I had some chickens to hatch I've never heard of pipping before either.
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Takes me back to my snake breeding days, watching them hatch!
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Hmmmm I draw the line at snakes....YUKWaiting_For_Godot wrote:Takes me back to my snake breeding days, watching them hatch!
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Come on! snakes are wonderful. They have only one rule, you don't bother them so they don't bother you.Looking for help wrote:Hmmmm I draw the line at snakes....YUKWaiting_For_Godot wrote:Takes me back to my snake breeding days, watching them hatch!
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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!
Ealing, if anyone's wondering...
I'm sure they got eaten by rats, if not they'll be five feet long now!