March 2023 hatch-a-long

[Kikilu]

Boy this is taking fooorrreeever my last hatch (which was my first time hatching ever) most of them pipped at night while I was sleeping so I only had to wait a few short hours after I woke up for chicks so this seems like a long wait this time haha!

Haha! I feel your pain. My last hatch was a full 24 hours from first hatch to the last. No one hatched overnight and pips were so staggered.

 

[Kikilu]

Haha! I feel your pain. My last hatch was a full 24 hours from first hatch to the last. No one hatched overnight and pips were so staggered.

I would literally just stare at pipped eggs for like 4 hours haha

 

[Dinoroar]

I would literally just stare at pipped eggs for like 4 hours haha

I still do this every hatch lol. I incubate chicks for sale & other farmer’s eggs… my husband often questions if it’s worth it for the money and I have to explain that theoretically it’s not that time intensive but if I count the hours I spend compulsively staring at hatching eggs then no… it doesn’t pay well

 

[Cochinlover92]

Waking up to fluffy chicks is the best but knowing they’re pipping and zipping as I’m trying to go to sleep does not make for a good night’s rest! Lol

Yes this is what I'm afraid of too- I will be woken up all night by hatching cheeping chicks

 

[Cochinlover92]

I would literally just stare at pipped eggs for like 4 hours haha

Yes this is what I have been doing all day

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Got our first hatcher at 8:33 PM! Baby Morgan

 

[BarnyardChaos]

I'm 6 pages behind, and no, I'm not gonna go back and read every one.
BUT..... The RACE is ON!
First egg pipped at 7am this morning, and hatched out before noon!!! Only 3 others (of 35 total) had even pipped by that time. Poor little thing is all alone in the brooder. Right now, I've got 16 more eggs pipped, two of these are zipping, and 18 more haven't pipped yet. Hatch day is supposed to be tomorrow.
And I thought that by setting the eggs in the morning, I could expect hatching during the daylight hours. Not so, this batch! Going to be a sleepless night.

 

[ivy_huan]

Yes, they’re air cell up.

Awesome
I might try that this time
Do you cut the egg cartons up
Will the early hatched one knock over the late hatches ?

 

[gimmie birdies]

Stringer rope keeps the eggs large end up, and keeps the hatched from kicking the eggs.
I am using fish stringer-string. (Clean)

 

[LhickenChicken]

Mph! I am SOOO behind here. I missed like 6 or 7 pages here because I accidentally closed the tab and I felt too lazy to open it again. Then I thought of all of the pages that would be there. I am NOOT going back to read them, like @BarnyardChaos.

@gimmie birdies, I use elastic bands, for the sake of just sharing.