[Kate and her Ducks]

It's when they break the membrane into the air sac but are still completely within the egg. From this point on they can breathe the air in the air sac and can peep. They still have to pip the actual shell and get their way out which some of mine had problems with so needed a bit of help but too early to worry about things like that yet!

I have to go out for a couple of hours but will be back soon!

[too many girls]

shopping? at a time like this?

[Vember]

Things are looking good Cleo

Gives that extra bit of piece of mind that hole  





Sarah

[poultrygeist]

...and of course they can hear you talking and will latch onto you even sooner.  

[Snap Dragon]

Towels and hot water at the ready......

still no news?

[Cleo]

No news...its all gone quiet....

but then a watched pot ...

The poor blighters are sitting on the same shelf as my radio tuned to
radio4....

Perhaps they've heard the financial forcast and decided to stay put  

[Snap Dragon]

I'd make a hole in the other end of the egg and blow the little blighters out!!!

       

[too many girls]

:o  :o  :o  :o

[too many girls]

we've got this to go through yet, ours are due to hatch tomorrow, pip (external) is absolutely refusing to go to school, she's terrified she'll miss it, we've agreed if they start in the morning she can throw a sicky (we don't nomally let them do that) but if it's quiet in the incy she has to go, (she's made me promise to ring the school and get her a message if anything happens) she's meant to go to her dad's after school, no chance of that.....................

[Snap Dragon]

Patience was never my strong point!!!  :oops:

[Kate and her Ducks]

Patience is not my strong point either, I like the idea of blowing them out

I have to say that I practically caesarian sectioned a couple of mine but that was after 24 hour of nothing after the internal pip and they had stopped moving and I worried that they were not going to make it. I had a few in my first lots that died in shell after internally pipping and I hadn't given the air hole :cry:

I think it should be counted as educational for Pip to pull a sicky, a whole world that school never teaches them about

[too many girls]

i'm toying with the idea of letting pip's class hatch out some eggs in the classroom, it wouldn't be untill the spring though, have to look into the in's and outs, plus we'd probably end up with chicks when they are no longer tiny and fluffy, so the breed would have to be considered, i think it would be fun for them and i've heard they do it in some schools (not ours though) don't know whether i could part with my incy for a month...... what do you think?

[Vember]

Patience was never my strong point!!!  :oops:

Snap, Snap Dragon  

I'm ok till the last day then I just have to go out otherwise  :roll:


Sarah

[Kate and her Ducks]

i'm toying with the idea of letting pip's class hatch out some eggs in the classroom, it wouldn't be untill the spring though, have to look into the in's and outs, plus we'd probably end up with chicks when they are no longer tiny and fluffy, so the breed would have to be considered, i think it would be fun for them and i've heard they do it in some schools (not ours though) don't know whether i could part with my incy for a month...... what do you think?

Think it's a great idea providing you're happy to end up with the chicks when they are too much for the school! Sure you can cope with a few more
Think chicks would probably better than ducklings given they seem to have a better hatch rate from what people seem to say here particularly as there won't be anyone there to help out if needed.

[too many girls]

a few more won't make much diference here, the eggs in the incy are for pip's birthday, we have left a silkie, a silkie x frizzle, silver laced x frizzle, 2 gold laced frizzle x polish, 2 silver laced frizzle x polish, if the hatch fails we're taking her to Thirsk poultry market so she can choose her own, i sent my dad out to but her a little hen house to keep them in and he came back with a caravan. :shock: