5 days early!!!

[evergreendors]

So I have a new bator and it has spiked temps to 106 for a short period of time and i was sure it killed the 10 viable eggs that were moving along in there. It comes with the ability to set the number on the digital read out of days left. In fact it comes preset with 21 as a countdown when you plug it in. Mine was plugged in for 2 days prior to adding eggs to let it settle. SO I reset the counter to 21. I am POSITIVE I set it 21. If I can do anything right, I CAN read, lol. Anyhow It said 5 remaining days, yesterday. So this week I was planning on going to the supply store getting my chick feed, building my brooder etc. Then today, day 4, I was going to top off water levels and add a sponge to get the humidity up a bit. The when I did my "night check" on temp and humidity, there was a chick already pipping. Hole in shell and all! What the heck? How in carnation did that happen?

Is that possible? She, upon morning check, it out of the shell, still wet, but chirping, and pushing all the other eggs all over the place...but how?

 

[Danielle2006]

What type of chicks are they some do hatch early if she's up and about I wouldn't worry

 

[evergreendors]

The one who hatched, and is doing fine so far, is an Amerucana hen and Polish roo. I should add that when the temp spiked, I did have a probe digital in there too and it also read the spike. I'm wondering if something shorted somewhere and caused the counter to reset? Truth be told, i did not write on the calendar the day I set them in there. I was writing on the eggs as I saw stuff with dates, but not how far along, just the calendar date.

 

[evergreendors]

This makes me think of some questions...if it is day 16 and I had one hatch, when do I move it to the brooder, assuming the others go to normal time of 20-21?

 

[Danielle2006]

I think they are going to be just fine just give the rest a few more days I'm going through a similar situation I have bantam eggs hatching they usually only go around 19 days I set them with my Americana eggs and road island red eggs I woke up this morning to 3 Americana's and one bantam hatched this is day 20 so in all honesty its just a waiting game as far as taking the one you have hatched out I would take it out as soon as it is fluffy they can stay in the incubator without food or water up to 48 hours but I've never let mine stay 48 hours