Longest amount time between first and last hatch in a batch of eggs?

[sue3]

What is the longest amount of time that you have had in a batch of eggs between when the very first and last egg had hatched?

 

[RoostersCrow]

3 days.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Yup, from day 20 pips to day 22.....

 

[yotetrapper]

take the hatched out once a day?

 

[sue3]

We had one chick hatch out on Wed. afternoon = day 21, another started then but stalled so we helped it out on Thursday. They are in a cage now under a heat light and doing fine so far. Nothing is happening on the other eggs in the incubator and it is now Sat. morning. We are wondering how long to give these eggs before giving up on them.

 

[NoSpringChick]

Great question, I was wondering that myself.

 

[fowlwoman1]

My first hatch was 4 days from the first to the last. I was messing with them too much and didn't know to let them just stay in the incubator and not take the lid off, etc.

 

[kstaven]

4 days from first to last and for the same basic reason as fowlwoman1. Messing with eggs way too much during incubation. But hey ... I was on 11 at the time.