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[peacelover]

Candled today, 20 eggs with movement!!!!!! Only day 13, so anything could happen, but hoping that everyone has lots and lots of babies!!!!

 

[stirkle]

So... candled them this morning... 3 days left... ONE HAS PIPPED!!... a small mound like crack... I WAS LIKE OMG OMG OMG OMG EXCITED...

SOO MUCH TO DO!! BUT QUESTIONS... QUESTIONS QUESTIONS QUESTIONS... this is my first hatch... exciting!! and worrying!! so... now that one has pipped... do i stop turning and turn the others manually? do i take out the egg tray?? SOMEONE HELP

these are duck eggs btw...

ahh excited... have to get the brooder lamp done... iv had their bedding ready for ages!!

 

[krstms]

youre not supposes do turn the eggs or open the incubator the last three days. Thats what they call lockdown. I guess that applies to ducks as well. I know that's how you do it with chicken eggs. I wouldnt turn them if you have a pip. Dont forget pictures when they come out.

Cant wait to see the duckies.

 

[Madcap621]

Stirckle & 8wishbonechicks, looks like we are Hatching buds

After waiting all day yesterday with nothing happening, I noticed a pip at 10:30 last night.

Woke to peeps this morning

A day late and a $ short [very conservative estimate

] but hey, Better late than never! These are the [shipped] Silver Lakenvelder eggs I have been nattering on about for 3 weeks and a day

This egg was pipped last night

The one in back actually beat the front one out.

Another beautiful day here. Going to build a play yard for the "Porch Peeps", Plant some flowers I got yesterday and work on my coop. "Dirt therapy" is as good for the soul and much more calming than hatch therapy

 

[stirkle]

aww... i just realised... i could have a hatch tonight!! WAOW!! so nervous... thinking an all nighter...

well... lock down it is

has anyone got any pictures of pips... just so i am sure its a pip and not damage i made?

ok... well... im reading on hatching... websites say you can hear them cheeping... i havent heard that at all... my incubator has fan noise... its a brinsea eco mini advanced thingy...

should i be able to hear cheeping... worried now...

 

[stirkle]

well... today is a good day indeed...

one of my welsummers is broody... bad idea i know but she is persistent... think I will let her have a couple of chicks...

and one of my four ducklings have pipped... hoping for more pips throughout the day...

yay!

 

[krstms]

I have only incuabated them myself twice. One I heard them cheeping like crazy and the other nothing so dont worry yet. These were chickens though not ducks.

 

[Madcap621]

Stirckle, this is my 6th or 7th hatch, each as eggciting and nerve wracking as the last. I have had 'pretty good' results

[almost always hatching shipped eggs] & really miserable results, either nothing hatched or they hatched but died

. I have learned a lot from ALL of them. Oh yeah..................I am a MAJOR addict!

Are you "supposed" to hear peeping in unhatched eggs? You might, I have a time or two, but most of the time I haven't. If you do, it's egghilerating,

, if you don't it does NOT mean something is wrong. Same goes for "rocking" eggs.

There are some really great pictures of pips here, but I cant find them. Save the Faves, do you know where they are? Pips usually look like a tiny triangular hole, or, if the shell hasn't popped out like a tiny tee-pee.

Chamomile or 'tension tamer tea is calming, even more so if you add a "little nip" of something

If you expect to be up allnite you might want to be sure your camera batteries are charged and take a nap

 

[princessmama]

So fun reading all these

Candled last night, end of day 9. Tossed seven clear (well, six clear and one with a blood ring) bantam eggs and one mutt egg. The other seven bantam eggs look to be developing well

I have four of my own eggs left in there. Two are too dark to see in, on looks to be developing well, and one looks like a dead chick--it's dark, I can see a little pointy blob in there, but it's a bit sloshy.

I've not had much luck hatching my own eggs this year. Last year we set nine eggs from a neigbhors flock (one BO roo and a bunch of different hens) and hatched eight strong beautiful babies. We have three chickens left due to foxes. One roo and two hens. The first batch of eight eggs I set this year hatched one strong chick that is doing well and one weak chick that died after a few days. I tossed a few clears and a few that looked like they had developed but they never hatched. This time I set five eggs and already have two possible no goes.

I also set a dozen muscovy eggs which just arrived in the mail (due May 7th) and am waiting for half a dozen bourbon red turkey eggs

 

[stirkle]

well when i was candling them this morning when i noticed the pip... in all four eggs i could feel a kicking sensation... i was like... YAY BABIES SOON!!

and now one of my welsummers has gone broody... first time for that aswel... so i have made up a carboard box with straw and put it in a cabinet in the garage... took her out of the next box to do her bizz n drink n eat n now she isnt going back in... soooo i dont know... should i put her in the box in the garage anyway and get her into a routine?