cheeping in shell but no pipping - how long until dangerous?

[technodoll]

Still nothing besides that original first pip - I'll bet it's a girl, taking her sweet ol'time to come out when she's good and ready

I'm hoping and praying to see a sweet chick in the 'bator when I wake up tomorrow morning!

And... hint hint other eggs... she needs brothers and sisters!

Come ON you can DO it, hatch! hatch! hatch!

 

[Kittymomma]

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[chkinut]

i'll be looking on here tomorrow to hear more good news!! it's always fun to wake up when you know to be expecting babies in the morning! better than christmas IMO!! that's why i set my eggs at 5pm so that the 1st half of day 21....i should be asleep for the most part! cuz i know i pretty much need to knock myself out during that time! maybe i should take NyQuil when the time comes? lol! mine go into lockdown on sunday!

 

[technodoll]

Still no chicks...

It's been over 24 hours since the first egg cheeped, and about 16 hours or so since it pipped - and then nothing further.

I can't see if it pipped through the membrane, but it doesn't look like it.

Should I help???

3 more eggs pipped overnight though, but the incubator is silent this morning.

Doesn't look good

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

If more pipped overnight, then they should start to hatch soon. Chicks make "clicking" noises to each other which seem to help them hatch synchronously.

I'm sure this is much more evident in very large hatches. I'd love to put a microphone in my hatcher and record this.



"All together now!
The synchronised hatching of commercial chickens is important to ensure they are all the same size and reach maturity together. This is achieved by having similarly-sized eggs and uniform incubation conditions for egg hatching. In some bird species, hatching is naturally synchronised. Before ducklings hatch, for example, they communicate with each other by making clicking noises, signalling when to start chipping their way out of the egg. The ducklings then hatch simultaneously, so they can follow their mother together and reduce the risk of predation."


http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...053bb81d3d5386ea0c23d7e0aa028197&searchtype=a

 

[technodoll]

She made it!!

And I got it on video!!

More are on the way... indeed they seem to be talking to each other now

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

GREAT!!!! Congratulations!!!

 

[silkiechicken]

CONGRATS!!!

Little guys are tougher and more able than you'd think!

 

[technodoll]

I just caught the dad, our little partridge silkie Tyler, handing out cigars in the coop

 

[jen5680]

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