Anyone set yesterday or today?

[Akane]

Candling tomorrow and then setting mine up for hatching. Our furnace ended up not working when we tried to turn it on a few days ago. No hot air and I started to smell gas so we've been without heat all weekend. I am surprised the incubator has done as well as it did at maintaining temps while it got somewhere around low 50s to possibly high 40s in the house. We ran the little space heater moving it from room to room to keep everything warm enough (we also have sugar gliders and some chicks) until it died. It won't put out air at any setting. I'm not sure what killed it but it did spend a winter in the chicken coop and is covered in dust and poop. Hopefully tomorrow they fix our heat.

 

[thechickonthehill]

My marans eggs that I have a broody sitting on should be hatching on Thursday.

I did a "sniff check" yesterday and thought I could smell just the faintest of odors but wasn't sure. I caught her off the nest today when I went out to check the nest boxes and had another sniff. Definitely a slight wrong odor, so I picked each egg up and smelled them individually. One did have a different smell - not a

gag you smell but definitely not right. One other I thought was a maybe, but it was beside the "not right" egg and that could have been the reason, so I put it back in the nest. When I cracked open the "different" smelling egg it was definitely rotten - hadn't even begun to develop.

Now, since these should hatch Thursday, should I bother them again or just let them be?

I don't want to move them if it will hurt anything but I know I will be wondering about that "iffy" egg. I did not have time to mark it as my broody came back in and fixed me with a look that said" You better not be messin' with my eggs!" so I left her to do her job. I would appreciate some input from some of you with more experience.

 

[Jasper_899]

Just went on lock down last night, humidity wasn't going up so I went out and bought some sponges and stuck those in along with a small cup of water.
I checked on them this morning and I'm so excited, I got one pip. Its the smaller egg that I predicted would hatch first because on Saturday it was moving around quite a bit and I took the turner out a day early. I hope that it wont affect the others if this one hatches out early. I wont be able to check on it till after school so I'm a bit anxious >.<
So I started out with 9, but 3 did not develop and the other 2 died early on. I hope these other 4 do alright. -crosses fingers-

And good luck to everyone else who is due to hatch soon.

 

[Akane]

11 serama, 1 jap, 2 barred rock, and 11 dark brown eggs set to hatch wednesday to friday (serama tend to go early and I put them all in the incubator at the same time). 1 dozen silver lakenvelder, 1 dozen blue hamburg, and 8+ what I get tomorrow bantam EE ready to go in the 2nd bator tomorrow. Why am I hatching when it's 40F outside?

 

[carolynb]

I have a pip 1 out of 11 eggs....coming to the end of day 21. It chirps too

I hope it makes it, we've been having a lot of humidity issues.

 

[Jasper_899]

Whooo The lil baby made it over the night. Its out of the egg and all fluffed up and dry. Very loud too Im pretty sure thats what I was hearing last night.
Nothing from the others though

I'll leave the chick in there to encourage the others when they get going, but again its only day 20, that one hatched out really early. I just hope it doesn't cause too much trouble.

 

[andisgarden]

I'm in lock down and I hear loud chirps but I don't see any pipping. Is that normal? It's funny I forgot they were there since I stopped turning them yesterday and today me and my husband have been looking all over for a chick because its chirp is so loud. I have babies outside and I have 3 cats so we were firguring the worst. Then it donned on me, I have babies in the bator...

I am so excited I can't wait. I want to watch all day.

 

[Akane]

The chick first breaks into the air sac about 24hours before it needs to pip the shell. While in the air sac they are breathing air and can therefore peep. Mine are usually quiet but some have had very loud peeping eggs.

 

[andisgarden]

I just noticed there is pipping on 2 eggs but it is on the bottom side of the egg. Should I do something or is that where it is suppose to pip?

Andrea

 

[dancingbear]

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If your eggs are lying on their sides, don't worry about it. If they're upright, in a carton, they should be pipping at the big end, which should be up. If that egg that's pipped is in a carton, it might be better to take it out and let it rest on the side. Pip side up.