How long do they take to hatch once started ?

[Gagirly]

Yay!!! I've hatched my first chick !!! The other is further along, so maybe tonight I'll have 2 !!!

 

[Gagirly]

Thank you ! This is so exciting !

 

[alcap]

Congrats. We will need pics

 

[MicheleC]

I've had chicks go to day 26, be patient.

 

[Ashlynn]

Hi,
I am wondering how long it takes for a egg to hatch. This morning I wake up and checked on my white leghorn eggs that I am incubating and the egg that I dropped and cracked had moved over to the left a little. I just thought the incubator got kick, but two hours later I went to check them again and it had a line that ways 1/4 around it. I have checked it first at 8:58 am and now its 5:44 pm and since then it has got to 2/4 around the shell, how much longer until the chick is out. today is the hatch date and none of the others are doing anything so what am I supposed to think?

 

[garynorman]

I set 12 eggs 23 days ago one as just started to pip someone said 21 days how long for it to hatch, first time hatching eggs it's more nervous than my first child.How long do you recommend eggs before hatching,cheers Gary

 

[chickhen Eric]

I have had one die in the shell halfway hatching whys that anyone ?

 

[Pollmadoll]

I am also like an expectant mum waiting after the pekin pipped at 8 pm last night. So is LIGHTNING getting impatient our 9 day old chick of three

 

[Dk92]

The thing about pipping and hatching and helping that people need to realise is this: Just because a chick has pipped, doesn't necessarily mean it's actally ready to hatch out yet. Chicks don't pip when they're ready to hatch, they pip when they're running out of oxygen inside the air cell and they're starting to suffocate. So they pip to reach fresh oxygen, but they may not be fully developed and ready to start hatching for a few hours, or maybe even a couple of days...

If you're too quick to 'help' out a healthy chick, you could do it a lot of damage. If your temps and humidity have been spot on, you shouldn't have to help out ANY healthy chick. If you know you've had some temp and/or humidity issues, you may have healthy chicks struggling to hatch through no fault of their own, and in that situation helping out might be necessary. But if you've not had any such issues and you've got a chick struggling to hatch, chances are there's something wrong with it and nature's not intending it to hatch.

I'm just saying all this to put across the idea that helping chicks out shouldn't be the norm like some people seem to think it is. When I started incubating, I helped out quite a few chicks. I know now that most of them would probably have managed to hatch by themselves if I'd (a) got my temps and humidity stable and (b) just left them alone. In the last two years, I haven't helped out a single chick, and every chick that has pipped in my bator has gone on to hatch unassisted.

We lost power on day 17 for several hours during the night. Today is day 23. One hatched on day 21. One pip last night but nothing still this morning but I can see it's been. Another one has pip. The last Two there is no movement or pipping. Even the two that have pip their is some movement and chirping from one, the other has one that pip has a little movement. My main concern is that the last chicks I hatched moved all over the place and all hatched within the 21st day. I'm concerned about these hardly moving. I'm wondering if the lost of power for several hours hurt them and if I should assist in the hatching of the two that pip.