Wow - Mom sure had a restless night - so glad you were here, gemini, and thanks for stopping by, Sue!gemini wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 4:20 am3:03 am This video is a compilation of egg rolls from 10:38 pm -1:22 am as the little chick slowly emerges from the shell -
Hatching chick
At 1:24 am it looked to me like the wee one was finally free of the shell or maybe earlier?? (I defer to your decision JudyB!)
I'm here (I think!) and I'm okay even if my Mommy did step on me!
I agree with 1:24 am as the official hatch time.
And it was really scary seeing Mom step on the egg and (I think) break off a piece of it; happily it does look as if the chick is fine - and I didn't see any indication that there were veins in that part of the shell, which is also good; removing a piece of shell before the chick disconnected would be a bigger risk to the chick.
I need to do a few things so have logged out of the cam for now. I got this a minute ago.
Back soon.