I hope this never gets old

Yesterday morning, the incubator went on "lock down."  For the final three days of incubating the humidity needs to be increased and the temperature needs to remain constant.  Chicks can stay in the incubator for 24 hours after they've hatched and if they need to be removed at 24 hours because there are other eggs hatching, it needs to be done quickly.

The eggs aren't due to hatch until Friday morning and I thought they would hatch from Friday morning until Saturday during the day since they won't all hatch at the same time.

This evening, I started dinner and then went over to check the humidity and temperatures, which I tend to do several times a day.

I immediately saw a pip!

I screamed!

Then I heard it peep and I screamed again!

I searched the eggs as best as I could looking for signs of other pips and found more!

The egg on the left has a pip at the top right edge

There is a pip next to the number 2 on the 3 egg from the top

There are six eggs in all that have pipped that we can see.

Pipping is where the chick will break it's beak through the shell and create a hole.

I even took video of the eggs because you can hear them peeping at us and the eggs will rock around.  It is so amazing!

I am hoping that they will hatch before I fall asleep because I'd hate to miss it! :)

The first video is the first egg that we saw that had pipped.  It is shaking all over and just a few seconds into the clip you can hear it peeping.

In the second video I set the camera down on top of the incubator and you can hear peeping and see two eggs shaking around.

We did go downstairs to see how Norma Jean was doing with her 4 eggs and I couldn't hear anything and she still looks completely mad at us.

Her "Evil Eye" is much scarier than my own!