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Chukar hatching

gabrielle1976

Crowing
10 Years
Feb 21, 2009
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Ok my chukar eggs are pipping I have three pips so far and one has been pipped since like 8am or befor. How long do they take are they like chickens who can dawdle for an entire day befor hatching or are they more like quail and just kinda pop out when there ready .
Any adv\ice would be awsome.
Im haveing humidity issues I have to small glass jars with sponge pieces in them a folded up kitching hand towl and the troughs filled and I can just barely get it to 70/72 ish and it keeps trying to drop down to about 68?
up to 8 ;pips now and going on 13 hours from the time I saw the first one. Its all ok right like chickens they can take some time?
 
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Ok so they all pipped yesterday and they all hatched today between about 3 and 11 pm. One guy pipped a vien and got all sticky and dried to the shell so I Helped him out but besides that they did good hatching. One baby coudnt seem to popp the top after zipping all the way around and after waiting a few hours I released some of the stuff attached to keep the top on. I got 13 babies out of the 14 eggs that made it to lock down. These guys are a right menece to them selfs and everyone else after they hatch I had one that kept trying to burrow under the egg cartons , I had one that kept climbing up and trying to eat the sticky stuff on the therm, Another one kept knocking it over, One insisted on sitting on eveyrones head (
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) and then one poor thing cant seem to keep upright and was constingly flipping over and flailing eveyrone with his feet. They are cute though and they peep at me when I peep at them its really cute.
He wanted to come be with me.
The baby I helped resting and one of the babies trying to decide what havoc was needed next.
The three amigos who hatched fairly close to each other time wise and rested together befor getting on with the pillageing and mayham.
 

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