anyone due on feb. 8th-13th??

[AWChickens]

Can you hear them even before they make a pip hole???

That's how I know to start watching the bator- when it starts talking get ready to

There should be that first little pipped hole when they start cheeping, but sometimes I've had one talking in there when there's only a little crack in the shell and not really a hole yet​

 

[hooksetz]

Oh yeah you'll hear 'em, but it could be many hours before they come out, just be patient, these guys were pipping yesterday and I just pulled 'em now.

 

[ursusarctosana]

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I am new to hatching my own...and keep reading that you guys can hear them peeping in the shell!! Can you hear them even before they make a pip hole??? Is it easy to hear??? I am dying to hear such a thing!! I am gonna go stick my ear on the bator now!!

I can hear some of mine even though there does not appear to be a pip hole. Some can be heard scratching their beak on the inside of the egg before there's a pip hole, but I have to be so silent in order to hear this.

 

[daisychick]

I haven't even hatched an egg yet and I am soooooo addicted to this hatching stuff!!

 

[hooksetz]

Now just imagine, it gets worse w/time. You will be a hatchin' addict soon enough.

 

[americana-chick]

well i chanced it today, cracked open all the eggs and everysingle one had died (im guessing due to the temp spike

) and the one i thought might have a chance actually had mold in it!!! i didnt smell or anything just covered with mold... differnt... very differnt...? oh well i guess. better luck next time i supose!

Good luck to all of you!
~Bri

 

[hooksetz]

Hopefully the next batch goes better for you, sry.

 

[playingchicken]

What adorable chicks everyone keeps showing!

Out of my 11 eggs, 3 hatched and 2 lived. The one that died was spraddle legged and I am sure he had something else wrong with him too.

SInce their daddy was taken by a hawk, we really wanted another roo. We got a pullet and a cockerel! I am happy with that. I will NOT be trying dry-incubating again in the LG in this climate (super-air-conditioned/central heat DRY house) because they were all stuck to the membranes which were drying out. I am hoping to have a better rate next time.
Here are the little Golden Penciled Hamburgs.

 

[pegasuschick]

OK, folks. I think I have lost my last eggs. Not sure why, nothing went wrong. the humidity was good, the temps were OK. I had cheeping in the shell of my brahma egg yesterday and now all day nothing. The other three bantam eggs that hatched two days ago were from the same batch and these are totally quiet in the shells. I don't know whether to crack the brahma egg in the sheer chance that the chick is in there but dying.
What should I do?
I did open the incubator during the hatch to take the others out but I made sure the humidity stayed up all the time.
Gina

 

[ginbart]

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I'm so sorry to here that.

It brakes your heart. You wait so long.