Much relief and excitement.
During the day, a small hole appeared. It was slow progress. Yesterday afternoon, we heard cheeping from inside the egg. Before we went to bed, the cheeping was quieter. The hole was no bigger. It's so very tempting to want to "help", but "helping" isn't always the right thing to do.. We've had eggs before which have taken more than a day to hatch, so we went to bed leaving well alone. For now.
This morning I went to look at about 8am and there were two chicks in the hatcher. Two!. DH said the second one had pipped when he checked at 4am and the first one stilll hadn't emerged.
I'm so excited to see them!
One is from the set I bought, a Leghorn/Legbar cross. The other is one of ours, from the 5 girls Bertie was penned up with. It's a brown egg, so we know it isn't Ping or Pong (the two Dorkings). So, it could be Barbara (Australorp x Indian Game, the more Indian Game markings) or Annie, Barbara's sister (but more Australorp looking) or Barbara/Annie's Aunt who doesn't have a name.
I hope more hatch soon.
