Hatch-Along - Eggs set in November, due December, anyone?

[AlivianAcres]

Question:  When do chicks pip internally?

to add to this ? How do I know I have internal piping if they are in lockdown???

 

[Jharper]

Mine are due this weekend. Christmas chicks! I am so excited!

 

[Jharper]

Yep! She's been eating every now and then and drinking since yesterday. Bttw, she pooped on me for the first time today. lolol What gender is she (or he!)? This is a picture of its wings. I think it's a girl. :3 Another cute picture:

Female, because pullets mature faster than cockerels.

 

[rgvchicks]

These little fellers!! they love doing that... "Mommy Mommy, my turn...."

nice looking family you got there candyman.......

 

[katsdar]

Jharper mine are due the 25th too!!!! lock down is sat, we are in the home stretch now, we can try and see who pips first, might be a little hard with the Christmas crazies and cooking,


3D told you it was a girl because she is so stubborn

 

[Jharper]

Jharper    mine are due the 25th too!!!! lock down is sat, we are in the home stretch now, we can try and see who pips first, might be a little hard with the Christmas crazies and cooking,  


3D told you it was a girl because she is so stubborn 

Ok mine are do on eve, the rate my silkie/sultan eggs are going they may pip within the next two days.

 

[Jharper]

These little fellers!! they love doing that... "Mommy Mommy, my turn...."

Did she sit on all of them?

 

[Jharper]

I love all the pictures of course.
update
My chickens all stopped laying before my new combo incubator/hatcher was finished so I set 18 rather stale eggs at noon on the 25th.
The next morning I woke to a failed heat element after it had maintained temp for 4 days(temp was down to 84). I moved the eggs to the hatcher which was only holding between 96 and 99.
A week later I got the heat in the incubator to maintain. Moved the eggs in there along with 14 more - 12 fertile Whole Foods Market eggs that were 14 days old and 2 of my fresh eggs.
The following morning I had a power loss. Temp dropped to 80. Fixed the problem and restored temp.
Day 18 I moved 9 of the original eggs to the hatcher and opened the 9 that appeared clear and they had not developed.
Most of my eggs are very dark and it's nearly impossible to see anything but an air cell and sometimes not that.
Day 23 I woke to a fluffy chick from a 15 day old egg. Day 24 today and nothing new. I hope he gets siblings soon.
I do have 40 much fresher eggs in the incubator now due NYD but 28 of them were shipped.

All the Whole foods eggs from the second set are clear.

Sounds like you have had some troubles recently.

 

[katsdar]

So they internal pip just before the externally pip,

Candyman nice looking flock, I hope you buy mom a nice treat. Will you just use these for eggs, or will they become sunday dinner?

 

[Candyman]

3D thats is such a cute little thing... I am no expert but from the feathers it looks like a he, because all the feathers are equal and a she has two layers of feathers, but they say that all breeds cannot be feather sexed so I don't know... maybe you should buy 2-3 chicks to keep Hope company.

kats & AlivianAcres I candled some of mine randomly just before lockdown on day 18.5 nd I saw 2 internal pips, it looks somewhat like

(2nd image taken from https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/577310/a-guide-to-humidity-weighing-and-lockdown)

looks like the airsac is no longer defined, or you can even see a beak in it.

rgv thankyou

and Jharper she sat on 11 eggs (4 infertile, 1 dies, 6 hatched) and the rest 21 are from my incubator.

thankyou kats, I don't know what I am gonna do with them, of course I can't keep them all thought I would love to, but due to space limitations, I may give some away, keep some and eat some