Is this egg going to hatch early?

[Violanna]

so I started my eggs on 8/13. They aren’t due to hatch until late Sunday early Monday. But this one just had the egg pocket drop a ton. I candle daily and it wasn’t like this yesterday. Brown line was on Sunday. Should I take this one off the turner and raise humidity now? Or wait until tomorrow night like originally planned? None of the rest have air pockets so pronounced yet. 1 other is close but not there yet.

 

[NatJ]

Should I take this one off the turner and raise humidity now? Or wait until tomorrow night like originally planned?

Just do it now, for all of them. That is much easier than trying to do things at different times for different eggs, and doing it a day early will not hurt any of them.

 

[Tstraub]

I only have limited experience incubating egg so I’ll let the experienced ones answer. Just wanted to wish you luck. I hope your hatch goes well.

 

[Violanna]

Well I wound up putting the eggs in lockdown a little early. Surprisingly the one with the larger air pocket didn’t externally pip until just this morning, but one of the others pipped just 3 hours after I started lockdown. That one hatched at 6am this morning and woke me up

I have 2 more with external pips now. I’m worried about 1 because it pipped on the wrong side, and I only noticed because the chick keeps bowling with the other eggs lol!

My last egg is growing slow for some reason, was laid and started the same day as the rest but when I candles before lockdown it still had a LOT of visible space in the egg. Veins were still very visible, but it has plenty of movement, so hopefully just a smaller chick! I’ll keep you all updated