Chirping...BEFORE the pip??? AHHHH PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[k2chickens]

well crap..opened the blind in the room with the bator and saw a robin perched outside singing/peeping in a bush. Wow....that really made me feel horrible. I thought i could of SWORE i heard peeps coming from the bator...maybe i did...but seeing that robin killed me

The window that i saw the robin through WAS on the opposite side of the room tho

 

[azelgin]

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The little suckers can be kind of intermittent in their chirping. When I have a broody hen about to hatch, I'll pull out an egg and give it a tap. Sometimes they talk back. Very cool experience. I used to be concerened about handling the eggs so close to hatch time, until I found the hen off the nest one afternoon and three of her eggs had already pipped. She got back on after about fifteen minutes and all the eggs she had under her that were fertile, hatched. I did an eggtopsy to check on the leftovers and the unhatched one had never developed at all. I never bother to candle the broodies eggs anymore. They seem to know what they are doing.

 

[k2chickens]

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The little suckers can be kind of intermittent in their chirping. When I have a broody hen about to hatch, I'll pull out an egg and give it a tap. Sometimes they talk back. Very cool experience. I used to be concerened about handling the eggs so close to hatch time, until I found the hen off the nest one afternoon and three of her eggs had already pipped. She got back on after about fifteen minutes and all the eggs she had under her that were fertile, hatched. I did an eggtopsy to check on the leftovers and the unhatched one had never developed at all. I never bother to candle the broodies eggs anymore. They seem to know what they are doing.

lol that's neat, i just hope i get one to hatch...that's all i want...just one. Got 11 of them in there now.