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I was just out there this morning trying to get some non blurry photos. :)

The final ones were already hatched and dry when I got to my mom's yesterday around 9 am. It's been pretty hot the past few days, so I gues that sped them up two days early! One is a grey(blue) and other other black. Seem to have more of the Seabright gold color on their heads than the first...

Awww, I am sorry to hear it wasn't alive. *HUGS* No, it's not TMI for me, I'm glad you found out and let me know. I did a couple eggtopsies myself this hatch, I didn't open the one too much once I saw it wasn't alive ( had lots of yolk yet), but the one that had developed to almost hatching...

There are two articles, both are good: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/ She uses a screw to make the little hole. and https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching.64660/

I actually used what I think they call a diamond drill bit? It was from my dremel set that I use to drillholes to blow out eggs. I just did it gently by hand. I read you can use a little drill bit, too. Then after I got the hole I used the tweezers.

Just in case you need them, you've seen/reviewed the assisted hatch articles here on BYC? She's a mix of mille fleur d'Uccle (hen) x blue dutch (roo) :)

Oo! Maybe it's stuck? I had one I was worried was shrink wrapped because the air cell was so big, so I drilled a little hole by hand into the top of the air cell, and took just enough shell away with tweezers so I could see in ok. It was OK, I was just being a worrywart. I think if you put a...

I'm hoping my last banties hatch Saturday, or Sunday, and not Monday. Tomorrow I'm going to stay over at my mom's and keep checking in on Anger Bird. Mostly I'll just listen for peeping so my hands aren't murdered. I have a lot of chicken projects to do in between, cleaning and painting coops...

O M G the last one is SOOO cute! I love them all, I adore cheekies!

Happy hatching! So many pretty chickies! Boy what a weekend! So, I had #4,#5, &#6 hatch within an hour the same time Saturday night, after I'd given up staring at them, and then later that night #7. #8....boy, that one. I waited until 12 pm Sunday and decided to take everything/chicks up to...

So cute!!!

I had one do that, and hatched out fine, I kept a close eye though! S/he zipped went kind of horizontal at first then around. S/he took a long time to be ready, #6 of #8.

7 chickies out, checked the three eggs this morning, two quit (one had absorbed the yolk and was positioned head between legs, so close! ), the other looks to have quit a day or so ago, I could see the yolk unabsorbed. BUT Jumbotron is still alive and well, pipped internally, and peeping. I'd...

I know, right? :D The watched egg never hatches?

Always seems like when I get done writing " nothing happening for hours and hours..." Had three hatch in the 4:00 hour. One of them was my backwards chick. :) That one zipped horizontally for a bit before going the correct way.

No more hatches yet, but one of the BIG eggs did a BIG wiggle today around 11:51 am, and I looked but didn't see an external pip. Later I happened to look at the bottom of the egg... Lord help me, it pipped opposite the air cell. :rolleyes:

Yay! That is great news! I'm crossing my fingers for mine. :)

I'm pretty bad about this too, I really did try to leave the chickies in there, but one had an eggshell stuck to her eye. I wanted to check the status of the bigger eggs, and I got the humidity back up quickly.

Right after I signed off the internet last night #20 hatched ( around 10:15?), and then an hour later the full sibling to Headstart hatched. And I found another pipped. But that was all that happened, and I did get a bit of sleep. I went to bed around 3:30 am, set my alarm for 4 to check on...

Oops, sorry, I didn't write that with all the info, the bantam I mentioned that hatched was not the backwards one, it was just my first one out. Little backwards is still in there chilling. :)