Hatching Chicks With A Heat Pad And A Egg Carton Experiment

[Eelantha]

I quickly pour water into the egg shells and close it.

That can do too. Hopefully your chicks hatch soon and safely!

 

[DogAndCat36]

That can do too. Hopefully your chicks hatch soon and safely!

Lets hope.
Also about the noise, let's hope that it was the eggs and not a gross mouse sniffing around. Just in chase, I am going to add some mouse proofing.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Is this like a styrofoam egg carton? Can you post a pic, even of the carton with the blanket or whatever over the top of it? I need a visual!!!

 

[Eelantha]

Lets hope.
Also about the noise, let's hope that it was the eggs and not a gross mouse sniffing around. Just in chase, I am going to add some mouse proofing.

A mouse scratches, while a hatching chick taps its shell with little ping-ping-ping sounds. It is a very different noise, and very muffled in the chick's case. You have to bend over and listen very closely to hear it, while you can easily hear mouses in a wall from the opposite side of a room. That's how I hear the difference, anyway. I have mouses inside my house too, and they're proving very careful around the traps laid for them.

 

[DogAndCat36]

A mouse scratches, while a hatching chick taps its shell with little ping-ping-ping sounds. It is a very different noise, and very muffled in the chick's case. You have to bend over and listen very closely to hear it, while you can easily hear mouses in a wall from the opposite side of a room. That's how I hear the difference, anyway. I have mouses inside my house too, and they're proving very careful around the traps laid for them.

Mice that be very clever. When I was sitting down on my bed I heard a Thump-Thump-Thump with a bit of scratching noises. When I got up, the noise stopped. I hate mice and I hope that is was just the chicks.
Edit- the noise was by the eggs.

 

[DogAndCat36]

Is this like a styrofoam egg carton? Can you post a pic, even of the carton with the blanket or whatever over the top of it? I need a visual!!!

I managed to get a picture a while back, this is the picture.

I wrap a towel in half and place it on top.

 

[careeka22]

I haven't seen them move enough to shake the egg, I just use my ears and just right now, they started to thump around.

Hope it was them! I usually hear a tapping when they are trying to pip. My curiosity would get to me and I'd do a quick candle. If it's a cardboard carton adding some water too it will help with humidity.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I managed to get a picture a while back, this is the picture.
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I wrap a towel in half and place it on top.

Ahhh! Now I understand how you are adding water to the half shells! Thank you!

 

[DogAndCat36]

Ahhh! Now I understand how you are adding water to the half shells! Thank you!

Ok, sorry for the confusion!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Okay.... now, what is that dark thing on the middle right that looks like .... a pickle or a pepper?