EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[dan26552]

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That makes 11 pipped eggs and one hatched, maybe I'll have some babies in the morning!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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thats awesomeness!!! in the styro or yours?

 

[DwayneNLiz]

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Hi

 

[meltel]

I lost all my quotes

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[Sally Sunshine]

I lost all my quotes

Now I can't remember a gd thing

Hi

ohhhh now I see why your lost

there there.... its k

 

[BullChick]

Janet had twins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! e e

Woo hoo!!

 

[dan26552]

e thats awesomeness!!!   in the styro or yours?  

Mine.

 

[BantyChooks]

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[BullChick]

Initial diagnosis---- Crazy Chicken Lady

 

[microchick]

Well, it's day 3 here and so far so good. Temp is holding between 99.5 and 100. Humidity is being a bit of a challenge until today, probably because of the temps being up in the low 60s today and all the snow melting. Since I've been turning every 3 hours it's given me the chance to either add a cc or two or sop up a cc or two depending on what the humidity and temp are doing. Biggest drop in humidity has been overnight. The humidity in the house is at 35% but yesterday it was in the low 20s. This morning the humidity in the incubator was like 26%. It was at 36 when I went to bed. Today it's been hovering between 36 and 42% with me adding a cc of water every time I turn.

I tell ya, I have a whole new respect for broody hens. She just sits on those eggs for about 23.5 hours per day thinking Should I pull my breast feathers out or leave them be? When did I last roll these things around under me? Should I roll em around now or wait a bit? Man I'm thirsty. Need to poop too. If I roll em around now and sit on em for a bit longer maybe I can sneak off long enough to grab a bite. When did I roll em around last? That one keeps poking me in the leg pit. Wish it would move. Oh, wait, I need to move it.

All day every day for 21 days. Those little feathered dinosaurs are saints. If I was a hen I'd be contemplating smashing them all with a food bowl and heading outside for a nice long dirt bath.

Question. At what date of gestation do the chicks start making noises that the 'hen' can hear? The reason I ask is because I have the incubator sitting on my kitchen cabinet and we have 5 cats, 4 that are capable of jumping on a counter top much to my dismay and my plan is to isolate them upstairs fat night or the duration of lock down. I just need to know when that should be. What I've read so far says 48 hours before pipping the chicks can start chirping. But is that when humans can hear them or hens and if it's hens, given that cat's hearing is more acute.... See my dilemma?