Entry #40: My Little Babiessss

5/10/13
4:03pm

It's here!!! THEY'RE here!

My little chickiesss:) :) :) well only two so far, but I'm really really hoping for some more (fingers crossed).

Moe hatched last night, and Bella hatched this afternoon!

So last night I came home from school and watched my peeping little eggs for a long time, but still no movement, no cracks in the shells....nothing! I was disappointed but I knew that they would be coming within a few days..I just never thought a few hours!

Anyways, after having watched them for sooo long, I decided, nothing is gonna happen, they're not hatching until tomorrow or the next day. (Side note: chicks are supposed to hatch at exactly 21 days after fertilization, but that's only with perfect humidity and temperature. Since both of those fluctuated in my incubators, the chicks can come out sooner or later than 21 days.) So I left to go to my boyfriend's house to do some dinner and catch up on homework. We had dinner, I reviewed for a test, and I was about to get some water when I decided to check my phone. And oddly my mom was calling at that exact moment. And this was pretty much how our phone call went:

Me: Hey mom what's u-
Mom: OH MY GOD GABI THERE IS A CHICK YOU HAVE TO GET HERE RIGHT NOW
Me: Wait.....like a chick, as in, chicken?!?!
Mom: YES OH MY GOD IT'S JUST THERE IN THE INCUBATOR
Me: Wait REALLY?!?!?!?
Mom: YES OH MY GOD COME HERE NOW.

And that was the first phone call.

So I uprooted Gareth (my boyfriend) from his comfy spot and I swear he was moving at sloth pace. All I wanted to do was race home and see my first little guy and I was out the door in no time.

But then I waited. And I stood out there and it seemed like 92837589273 hours had gone by and then I looked inside and Gareth is filling up his water bottle. And he's putting on his shoes. And I felt like he was writing a novel inside or something but man he was wayy less excited than I was. I was smiling so hard that I had to pull my cheeks down because it hurt (just got all 4 wisdom teeth out remember).

So the car ride seemed like we were taking a trip to Narnia. We hit both red lights and all I could think was: man this car ride is so much shorter usually...right?

We got home and I think I opened the door before we actually came to a full stop and I Usain Bolted into the house into my room and sure enough there was my little guy.

Moe:)

It's kinda hard to see what he really looks like since it was through the incubator but that's number one:)

So the next chicky to come out was Bella. And that was today! I noticed that she had a crack in her shell this morning, really small, but noticeably there. So I watcher over her for collectively, I'd say about 2 hours, because I wanted to get her hatching on film, and it's a very long process let me tell you. I took all the videos on my phone, and when I went back to look at all the little clips I had taken there were about 60-70 videos. I went through each and every one of them and I'm going to combine them all for my final project to show beginning to end of a chick hatching. This is the last video of Bella hatching.