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danro
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Location: Hedge End, Southampton, Hants
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 Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:53 am Post subject: Live web cam - pipping right now! **UPDATE** HATCHED! 2/5/08 |
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Hello everyone.
I have a home-made incubator at home that has 9 hen eggs keeping warm.
I have candled them recently and 8 are looking good 
Due date is 2nd May, which is a Friday, a work day,  so I will probably miss some spectacular happenings 
In order to overcome this I have setup a webcam, that is currently updating every 5 minutes but will be running on a 60 second update from the 2nd May.
****UPDATE****
The first chick hatched at about 06:15 this morning and is doing just fine.
3 more to go hopefully
You will need to refresh every 5 mins the page to pick up the very latest...
or you can go here
Incubator webcam where it will auto refresh at approx 5 minutes.
If you are interested in watching can you let me know in this thread and I'll keep things going once I get home. 
Any suggestions will be greatly received
Regards
Danny
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Attila The Hen
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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Nice idea Danny. I'll be watching!
Attila |
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danro
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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We are pipping RIGHT NOW!!!!
Cam now set to refresh every 60 seconds
Danny
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minstrelmerrymaker
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Location: ISLE OF WIGHT
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Im watching! good luck, what breeds are you hatching?
Ooooh the picture has gone very bright.... need to put my sunglasses on! |
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danro
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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The pipping egg is a cuckoo maran x (columbian blacktail x silkie cross cockerel) we also have a white leghornxRIR, RIR, french maran, light sussex and bluebird.
The LS egg look to be clear
I think we have a chance for four chicks out of the 9 eggs in the home made incubator.
Is that good?
How long does this pipping last?
I want it out ... NOW!!! 
Whoopps sorry, getting too excited  |
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JustChickens
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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Sweet, ill be watching  |
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bronskibeat
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Neat!! Hope yors makes more of an effort than mine is doing!! |
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minstrelmerrymaker
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| It will be interesting to see what your crosses come out like, i have just crossed a welsummer with a splash orpington cockeral and have got a pure black chick (dont know where that colour came from) luckily its also a girl |
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danro
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 8:24 am Post subject: |
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Well the pipping started at about 18:30 last night and at approx 06:15 this morning there was a burst of cheeping and lo and behold the first chick was out.
It has still to fluff up so is wandering around the incy giving the others what for!
Even now we can see the fluffy feet from the father.. bless.
Fingers crossed for the others, we have started saving eggs for the next batch, bigger this time, hopefully 18+
Danny
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CP
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 8:26 am Post subject: |
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Aww, cute! It's doing the 'dead' impression at the moment.
How many more to go? |
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danro
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 9:26 am Post subject: |
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| CP wrote: |
How many more to go? |
Being our first time with any success we are hoping for 3 more. There were 9 eggs to start but one was obviously clear and has been removed.
The other 8 have all shown signs of progress but on day 18 only 4 looked "full" the others only looked half full.
Today is day 21 so there is still plenty of time and "Kit" as this one has been named by my 3 year old is cheeping at the others quite merrily to "hurry up you lot!" - hopefully they will listen.
Cheers
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Kitsune
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:25 am Post subject: |
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| oh oh... that's my day gone then... |
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bronskibeat
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:30 am Post subject: |
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great shots of the eggs!!
I've got 4 pipped out of 6 so far so maybe they'll be schoolmates with yours |
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danro
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: |
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| Kitsune wrote: | | oh oh... that's my day gone then... |
I've been at work just over 3 hours now and done exactly nowt but watch the web browser 
| bronskibeat wrote: | great shots of the eggs!!
I've got 4 pipped out of 6 so far so maybe they'll be schoolmates with yours Laughing
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I'm not doing THAT school run!!! It would be a 5 or 6 hour round trip!!
I think I'll "home teach" these
..then if they skip lessons or fall behind..... they will be in the freezer  |
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bronskibeat
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 11:25 am Post subject: |
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You mean you're not going to teach them to dust bath and eat worms? |
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