HAVE a PIPPING QUESTION

[chickenshow]

ok so i have a bannie egg the is internally pipping cause u an hear it and the egg moves and i went in there to look at it and accidentall knocked the incubator i jolted the egg but it did not roll now there is no more movement did i kill it please help

 

[silkiechicken]

Nah, it probably just fel asleep. Check in the morning and you might get a surprise.

 

[kstaven]

I doubt you did any damage. When I do a large hatch the first chicks out roll the other eggs around like soccer balls and they hatch out fine.

 

[edster951]

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yet when we get to day 18 we're told not to move them...go figure

 

[kstaven]

Day 18 I always move eggs from incubator to hatcher trays.

 

[ladybug4ut1]

what are hatcher trays? and why do you move them to those?

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Some people use two different incubators one for starting their hatches to day 18 and then they move those eggs over to a hatcher (as they call it) so the eggs can pip and hatch there...they sometimes have staggered a hatch which means they have set more eggs at different times to hatch in the first incubator..I personally don't my chicks hatch in the only bator I have...but I always just set one set of eggs...

Hope that made sense..I understood it...lol