Chicks hatching on day 15 ?

[poultrykeeper08]

i have eggs in my incubator . The oldest ones have been in there for 15 days . I came home tonight to find a hatched chicks and another egg pipping .

There is no way the eggs were already beeing sat on because i collected them daily and stored them in a cage in my barn for 2 weeks as i collected a good amount of eggs . Theres also no way that they hid them from me iether .

how is it possible that they hatched on day 15 ?

I dont know if it matters but they are either full game or araucana /game mix .

 

[KellyHM]

They were developing before that. Either someone was incubating them or it's hot enough in your barn where they were stored to do the trick.

 

[grundail01]

looks like they started developing during the 2 weeks you stored them in your barn

 

[Illia]

Have you ever candled them beforehand? That may have told you what was going on. . . But it sounds like your barn was giving prime conditions for development.

 

[greathorse]

I sounds very early, I need to be convinced that you didnt forget a week in there somewhere dates seem a week off to me

 

[poultrykeeper08]

i never candled them before hand . But i used the first weeks worth of eggs for food for some other animals i had then i started collecting them .

They are just 2 out of 50 eggs i collected that week and they are the only eggs hatching . I candled all my eggs tonight to see if any others were hatching but there was non


the eggs were stored in a locked cage and they were in the dark most of the time .

i know its odd . I have ben hatching for a few years now and never had this happen to me before