April 2020 Hatch-A-Long! All are welcome!

[CluckNDoodle]

GUYS, I feel so dumb . I have had a hard time keeping track of days this time around and I thought it was D16, but it's actually D19. I went to go lockdown, thinking I was even early to lockdown, and there are THREE external pips in there and more eggs wiggling and peeping. I stopped turning them a couple days ago, but hadn't taken the turner out or added shelf liner. Sorry little chickies!

Lol, it happens to the best of us! I had a little chick externally pipped and peeping up a storm while it rolled around the incubator in the horizontal turner last year. I was staring into my lockdown incubator when I heard it and low and behold it was the other incubator.

 

[Mablethechicken]

Ok just clarify that if I hear peeping the chicks definitely internally pipped into the air cell right? I have a noisy egg with no external pip yet. It’s one I thought might be malpositioned upside down but it can’t be if I’m hearing peeping right?

also! this same egg is my only one with perfectly enacted air cell but since she rest had air cell issues I’ve been incubating them all upright and left them upright to hatch. Since she/he has a normal air cell should I it on its side? Would that make it easier for it to hatch? She/he is peeping up a storm but hasn’t externally pipped. I would hate for it to suffocate because I didn’t have it in the ideal position.

 

[gmjarvi]

I think I joined this thread some time ago... followed people's hatches, then my eggs hatched and I got overwhelmed, and totally forgot about this thread! I had a great hatch from my shipped eggs and now have 15 fuzz balls that are 1 week old and getting less and less fuzzy... 4 will go back to the woman who let me borrow her incubator, and 11 are staying with me and starting my first flock. They are a mix of different colors of Orpingtons and Barnevelders. They are SO much fun!!!

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Aww, congrats on your cute fluffs!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Ok just clarify that if I hear peeping the chicks definitely internally pipped into the air cell right? I have a noisy egg with no external pip yet. It’s one I thought might be malpositioned upside down but it can’t be if I’m hearing peeping right?

It's highly likely that it's internally pipped if you hear peeping, yes.

 

[gmjarvi]

Lol, it happens to the best of us! I had a little chick externally pipped and peeping up a storm while it rolled around the incubator in the horizontal turner last year. I was staring into my lockdown incubator when I heard it and low and behold it was the other incubator.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one! . I have had such a hard time this month, I almost wonder if Mercury is retrograde?! Hahaha.

This is also the third hatch in a row with early hatchers, so I think I need to hone my temps? The Govee monitors should help with that, but I should probably get some more eggs to test it out .

 

[Mablethechicken]

It's highly likely that it's internally pipped if you hear peeping, yes.

Thank you!

did you see my edit with the other question? What do you think?

 

[K0k0shka]

Aww, congrats on your cute fluffs!

Thank you!

Ok just clarify that if I hear peeping the chicks definitely internally pipped into the air cell right? I have a noisy egg with no external pip yet. It’s one I thought might be malpositioned upside down but it can’t be if I’m hearing peeping right?

If it's vocalizing, that means it's breathing air, which means that it has pipped internally. They can't cheep until they start breathing air.

also! this same egg is my only one with perfectly enacted air cell but since she rest had air cell issues I’ve been incubating them all upright and left them upright to hatch. Since she/he has a normal air cell should I it on its side? Would that make it easier for it to hatch? She/he is peeping up a storm but hasn’t externally pipped. I would hate for it to suffocate because I didn’t have it in the ideal position.

Being upright won't make it too difficult to hatch. They'll need to work for it more than the others, but they can manage. All of my eggs hatched upright in cartons and made it out okay. If it's been too long since the chick pipped internally and you're worried about it suffocating, you can give it a safety hole in the air cell.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Thank you!

did you see my edit with the other question? What do you think?

To answer your other question. I personally hatch all of my eggs on their sides but this is just a personal preference. Lots of people like using cartons and hatching upright even when there aren't issues with the air cells. It should be ok!

 

[K0k0shka]

Here's a chick hatching video, just for fun

This is one of my Silver Laced Barnevelders hatching upright in a carton. I had them all upright for the whole 21 days (upright turner) and to hatch, because the eggs were shipped and had bad air cells.

 

[CindyinSD]

Ok, so my day 18 is tomorrow. So I remove the eggs from the turner, fill water in bottom canals of incubator, and try and place the eggs on their side with the lowest part of the air cell (where is dips up to pointy end) facing up. Right?

I just take out the turner & turner arm, add water if needed, put the eggs back in and wait--and wait---and wait... They lie on their sides. You're (I've heard here) supposed to hatch them in the same position that you incubated them. Some people like to place them in an egg carton, air cell up.