Our First Peep

I'm so excited, one hatched!

After many years of trying, this year we finally got one!

The first year, the power strip got turned off.

Last year, I knocked the incubator over and the eggs

all smashed!  

So this year was going to be my final attempt!

Yesterday was day 19.

Day 18 you stop turning the eggs.

They can hatch on days 19-21 so this one was on the 

early side.

Needless to say, there was TONS of excitement all day

today.  Jordan said he could hear the peeps

all night.

It was funny hearing the peeping coming from inside the eggs.

This evening, one egg started chirping loudly and 

moving pretty consistently.

Addan was so excited (the younger guys all

were but Addan just stood and watched the whole process)!

 

Here's the process.

This is egg #1.

It cracked early today.

This is egg #2.

It started to crack after supper this evening.

Then all the sudden it started moving around and peeping

loudly!

Addan kept telling me what was going on step by step

of the process.

"Mom, look it just started to crack more!"

 

"Mom, come look!  I can't believe it, I see feathers!"

It's almost all out!

Yeah!  It's out!  

It's shell was stuck for a bit and it was dragging it all around

the incubator.  I was a bit nervous

about it bumping and moving the other eggs.

Finally it came detached and just rested some.

 Once it was

dry we moved it under a heat lamp.

I feel like a new Mom,

I keep running over to make sure it's breathing

and warm.  :)

What fun excitement tonight.

I'm sure there will be more to come as I can hear

peeps when I walk by the incubator.

Hopefully we'll wake up to egg #1 hatched.