MARCH 2021 HATCH-A-LONG 🌷🌸🌼

[Willow2253]

Getting ready to move my broody to the brooder tonight. Her chicks are due Friday! I’m starting a new job this week, I hope I don’t miss the hatch.

 

[JessesChickens101]

What day do chicks start chirping inside the egg? I have some eggs on day 16, i assume they start chirping day 19-20

 

[Derangedplanet]

What day do chicks start chirping inside the egg? I have some eggs on day 16, i assume they start chirping day 19-20

With quails I could hear it the day before/ day of hatch. But i never noticed it until they got the first crack in the egg

 

[LowcoMatt]

all 8 eggs set a week back are clear, guess I won't be setting any more until I come into more eggs again. lol supposedly may be getting some silkie eggs who knows.

 

[FunnyfarmMidwest]

Yay! We’ve got 2 calls rocking now and shadowing in 3 eggs! Sadly I have work today so I cannot watch incubator tv...

Nevertheless I am so excited!

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

What day do chicks start chirping inside the egg? I have some eggs on day 16, i assume they start chirping day 19-20

They chirp when they've internally pipped. You should have an external pip by later today/tomorrow. Then a chick the day after that. It's always a good sign to hear chirping.

Are you confident about your dates?

 

[gimmie birdies]

I set these eggs almost 4 days ago, I candled before day 7 *slaps wrist* because I suspected the eggs in the below carton from a diff farm, isbars blue eggs, were not fertile.

I don't see any activity yet, but I will let them go for another couple days. I was really hoping for those!

The Brown eggs in the upper carton + the one blue, are very fertile, all have spider veins active! So at least I have something to work with. But I will just be hatching to hatch with them. (BY mixes) I do have to be careful what I say because I will get my wish. (Yes, I care, just not TOO much.)

 

[jasonvanorder]

I just started 6 today. First time for us trying to hatch our own so didn’t want to go crazy and have more little peeps than we could handle. Hoping for good luck. We shall see.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

I set these eggs almost 4 days ago, I candled before day 7 *slaps wrist* because I suspected the eggs in the below carton from a diff farm, isbars blue eggs, were not fertile.
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I don't see any activity yet, but I will let them go for another couple days. I was really hoping for those!

The Brown eggs in the upper carton + the one blue, are very fertile, all have spider veins active! So at least I have something to work with. But I will just be hatching to hatch with them. (BY mixes) I do have to be careful what I say because I will get my wish. (Yes, I care, just not TOO much.)

That's disappointing. Did you buy them as hatching eggs or table eggs? If you bought them as hatching eggs a refund or replacement is in order.

I've inquired after or purchasing some questionable hatching eggs I never make assumptions. Not saying you do just sharing my experience. One guy was selling hatching duck eggs. I asked about hatch rate. Come to find out he'd never successfully hatched a single egg from his flock. Despite "numerous attempts". Yeah I got duck eggs elsewhere. Another person was selling a dozen hatching eggs of a breed I wanted. When I asked about their hen:rooster ratio they only had 1 hen! Even if she laid every day some of those are getting pretty old. I'd hatch from my own birds' eggs up to 2 week, no problem. But selling eggs that old for hatching and charging full price? Not cool.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

I just started 6 today. First time for us trying to hatch our own so didn’t want to go crazy and have more little peeps than we could handle. Hoping for good luck. We shall see.

That's fantastic! First hatches are so exciting. Where did you source your eggs? What incubator are you using?