day 20 of incubation and nothing

[cmfarm]

It's hard to wait, but a least you know there isn't anything wrong with them. I hope you end up with lots of chickies.

 

[Botanya]

Finally some movement from one eggy, he must start calling the ohters, so excited!!!! Thanks guys

 

[Botanya]

I hear a peep, there is a peep. !!!!

 

[brittonia18]

I was wondering if all of your eggs hatched? I'm also on day 20 and no movement or anything. Last candle was day 18 before lockdown and they were all developed fine but I can't help but be discouraged :/

 

[Botanya]

Hi, well I'm not gonna lie to you, it was a very difficult hatch, out of about 34 eggs only 9 hatched, and I had to help them get out of the shells, it took me about 2 days to complete that process. I think something went wrong with my humidity. But don't be discouraged, if your temp and humidity was perfect, then there should not be any problems

 

[brittonia18]

I have a hovabator so I can't tell the exact humidity, it just says to fill a certain trough in there with water, so on day 18 I filled it all the way to the top for good humidity and used a syringe to replace some of the water today so that I didn't have to open it. I even tried putting YouTube videos of babies chirping to maybe encourage their movement but still nothing. I guess we will hopefully see in the morning! Thank you for your reply )

 

[Botanya]

Pleasure, lol, I invested some money in a styrofoam bator, my last hatch had 15 hatch out of 17, on day 21 I was so nervous, cause nothing happened yet, I decided to play them some chicks chirping, and I swear to you that it worked, just keep on trying

 

[brittonia18]

Haha alright awesome. I'll continue to do that in the morning if still nothing )

 

[Botanya]

Hi, was wondering if your chickies hatched fine?

 

[brittonia18]

Only one :/ but I only had three eggs to begin with so that's not too bad for my first I guess. He chirps super loud though! Hehe