Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[WVstruttin]

Oh I gave you some smoked sungold salsa! Don't tell DH though!

he covets that stuff!

aawww, I"m telling

 

[Greasydog26]

Hello guys! So we have 8 eggs incubating for the last 22 days that I swaped for on this site. The incubator humidity is up to 65-80 throughout the lockdown period but they are still not pipping or peeping. We have candled and 4 out of the 8 look promising. Should this be taking as long as it is for them to hatch? I read about the positioning of the eggs when they hatch and it seemed like most people lay them on their side. Would it be best to lay down or fat end up in the carton. By the way, this is our first time incubating and hatching eggs!!! Any advice is much appreciated.

 

[WVstruttin]

Hello guys! So we have 8 eggs incubating for the last 22 days that I swaped for on this site. The incubator humidity is up to 65-80 throughout the lockdown period but they are still not pipping or peeping. We have candled and 4 out of the 8 look promising. Should this be taking as long as it is for them to hatch? I read about the positioning of the eggs when they hatch and it seemed like most people lay them on their side. Would it be best to lay down or fat end up in the carton. By the way, this is our first time incubating and hatching eggs!!! Any advice is much appreciated.

give time, they"ll come out and play when they are ready. I"ve had eggs take 23 or 24 days to hatch

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

My last 3 hatches have started on day 22-25- odd, because we have perfect humidity and perfect temp. We always lay our eggs on their sides in the natural unsupported position during hatch- just because we have always been told to do it that way. My hardest lesson to learn was to keep the incubator closed during hatch. Every time you open it you loose humidity and will suction them right to the egg and they won't be able to get out.

 

[Greasydog26]

Ok thanks guys for the help. Dont really know what to expect.

 

[cluckitall]

One orpington, one lav am, one little blue silkie, and one marraduna basque with her head poking out! Also a black silkie and a little black dutch bantam working steadily at their shells, yay!

Still lots of eggs to go and only a few pips yet here and there. They're not technically due to hatch till tomorrow morning, so plenty of time yet!

 

[WVstruttin]

One orpington, one lav am, one little blue silkie, and one marraduna basque with her head poking out! Also a black silkie and a little black dutch bantam working steadily at their shells, yay!

Still lots of eggs to go and only a few pips yet here and there. They're not technically due to hatch till tomorrow morning, so plenty of time yet!

wont be long and you"ll have

 

[cluckitall]

My last 3 hatches have started on day 22-25- odd, because we have perfect humidity and perfect temp. We always lay our eggs on their sides in the natural unsupported position during hatch- just because we have always been told to do it that way. My hardest lesson to learn was to keep the incubator closed during hatch. Every time you open it you loose humidity and will suction them right to the egg and they won't be able to get out.

Yep. Yep yep and yep. My last hatch, the first half of the hatch went perfectly. The egg football was scaring the heck out of me, so I took the chicks out in two batches. After that second open/shut, I only had one more chick hatch, despite numerous pips and some peeping.

This time I have them in egg cartons to minimize the football and I'm sitting on my hands till Sunday morning, if necessary. DON'T OPEN THE INCUBATOR!!!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

evening all

 

[cluckitall]

wont be long and you"ll have

Whee!!! And to top it off, as soon as they all hatch and come out, the incubator's gonna be filled right back up again. I went from nine chickens to forty-eight back down to nineteen, now we're at 43 in the barn & brooder plus the 40-odd currently hatching plus two chicks in sick bay plus the twenty or so not-hatching-today eggs in the 'bator plus the three dozen eggs waiting to go in. And my spring swaps haven't even started rolling in yet!

Uhmmm... maybe I overdid it.