🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[kelseyk]

I had 6 BCM and 5 Black Amerucanas hatch total yesterday and last night.
But my last hatch a week ago was not so good with American Breese only 1 out 6 hatched pictures below
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I can't remember, did you get your Bresse Eggs from Countryegghatchery on ebay?

 

[Colleen556]

How long can a chick go between internal pip and external pip

 

[Chookwagn]

Ok so the 7 eggs that went into lockdown have all hatched!
1 hatched late day 20
5 one day 21
1 on day 22

So stoked to have them all hatch

 

[Chookwagn]

and..... i might have added another 20 eggs to the bator....

 

[CindyinSD]

How long can a chick go between internal pip and external pip

Not sure; I don't always pay that much attention to the time. I take the egg to a dark closet and have a look. If the chick is still working on getting out, that reassures me. I guess maybe 24 hours would be an average. If you're worried and it's been longer than 24 hrs, I'd probably pick out a little safety hole in the farthest reaches of the air pocket. A needle works for me, or the narrow tip of a sharp knife or similar.

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

First pip!

 

[FortCluck]

How long can a chick go between internal pip and external pip

I usually wait up to 48 hours before I start worrying

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

Another pip! I can hear this one chirping!

 

[Lunah452]

I read somewhere on here that as chicks grow, they can create heat of their own while incubating.

Since yesterday I'v been getting climbing temps after being rock solid for better than 10 days. Out of 27 eggs I have 15 growing, and seeing movement.

I'm hoping it's growing chicks because otherwise my bator's temp sensor might be going bad.

 

[FortCluck]

I read somewhere on here that as chicks grow, they can create heat of their own while incubating.

Since yesterday I'v been getting climbing temps after being rock solid for better than 10 days. Out of 27 eggs I have 15 growing, and seeing movement.

I'm hoping it's growing chicks because otherwise my bator's temp sensor might be going bad.

When I have bad eggs I can tell by touching the eggs before even candling. Quitters and infertile eggs do not get warm, they stay cold.