Gouldians Stormy & Easy's Eggs pipping clearly, see it begin

[Babs _Owner]

lovezebs

Good energy you sent my dear!

haroun

2 more I hope to open today. And 2 are a day behind, so hopefully tomorrow for them.

[Babs _Owner]

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Number 2 hatched a few hours ago. More eggs are obviously pipping around them.

Kids are strong and Stormy is being a great dad...sitting on his kids and no tossing! I have a good feeling about this pair.

[Sally]

Love seeing those newly-hatched babies! The big down side to waxbills is that you usually don't get to see much of the incubation or hatching process. Often, you don't see any babies at all till they fledge--bummer!

[Babs _Owner]

Sally

You can spare room for one little pair of gouldians? Maybe a pair of javas? ;)

[lovezebs]

Sally Babs

Or Zebras... buah-ha-hahh

Babs, Pinkies are looking great!

[Babs _Owner]

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Now we have 4! I'm hoping for one more today! Parents have starting feeding and dad is participating with enthusiasm!

[lovezebs]

Babs

Such little darlings!

Two more to go, come on tiny tots, you can do it .

Looks like 2 Blues (?)

[Babs _Owner]

lovezebs

Good eye, girlie! I see a Blueback, and the other is either silver or yellowback (they look almost identical in the beginning).

The two orangish ones are normals or Pastel males.

I think the one egg with the residue on it pipped into it's own fluid (thats the remnants of fluid that oozed out). That one may not hatch. If it does I will be shocked.

[lovezebs]

Babs

Can you give him a hand, to see if he's still alive ?

[Babs _Owner]

lovezebs

The pip was two day's ago, so if he pipped in his fluid he would have aspirated immediately. Not much you can do when that happens, hun.

We can hope the fluid dried and he found the air hole at best.

[lovezebs]

Babs

Yea, you're right, but you know me, right? Miss try anything and everything .....

[Babs _Owner]

lovezebs

Yeah we are both like that .

[Fraza]

Amazing I would love to see one hatch I’ve seen a few freshly hatched with the egg shell still there but never managed to catch them crack the egg off

[Fraza]

can’t wait to see him/her as a fledgling in few weeks

[Babs _Owner]

Fraza

Me too Fraser. It's never boring watching them grow. With a very small flashlight I have seen their little beaks in the airhole pecking away inside the egg lots of times.

I wait until the day before or on hatching day and take my little flashlight and hold it gently to the side of the eggs without taking the eggs out of the nest.

You can try it with your societies. They will go right back to the nest. Just make sure you are fast so the the eggs don't cool down.