Woo! The first peep is here! Out of the shell, fluffy and yellow, and ohmygod cute.

But I’m gonna make you wait for it.

First, we have two of the eggs as they were when I checked on them at around 9 last night:

What you can’t see here is that the one on the left has a cracked area on top that is just barely jutting out.

Then, we have the same two eggs around noon today:


Yeah, huge difference… I had no idea this process took anywhere near this long. Due to my crappy photography skills you can’t see that the peeps are visible through the holes at this point and are moving. The one in the brown shell is PEEPING. REALLY LOUDLY.

Then, going out to check again at 2ish… I found… PEEP!

Holy carp! It worked!

And, ‘cos it’s too cute not to share:

And yes, at less than an hour old, it has already learned how to sit in its food dish:

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