my experimental eggs are hatching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[roosters97]

my OWN chickens eggs are hatching !! buff orp x amerucana sp!! calm me down!! whats the chances it will hatch

 

[hatchcrazzzy]

a real good chance they will hatch your own eggs always hatch better than shipped eggs

 

[mudderhen]

YAY YOU!!!!

 

[roosters97]

oh no! 2 hours and no more egg shell cracked

is this normal (shes still peeping)

 

[roosters97]

is this normal

 

[chickens4jojo]

Congratulations!

 

[warsawffagurl]

yes its normal...
it can take them 24 hours to hatch out of the shell

 

[cajunlizz]

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This might be a stupid question , BUT what eggs are you referring to ?

Eggs your chickens laid ?


YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE AN INCUBATOR IF YOU HAVE A GOOD BROODY HEN . I have a hen setting on eggs right now and they will hatch on the 25th. . TAKES 21 days

 

[Akane]

Yes it can take awhile. I've been checking mine constantly for the past 24hrs watching the little tiny holes turn into large holes, then multiple cracks, and finally they started pushing the ends off but after 24hrs only half have even hatched. If they hear noise they seem to hatch faster. Every time I say something to mine I get another peck on the shell and I found when there's a chick in the incubator peeping and bumping into things the next one hatches out faster than when I immediately removed the first 2 chicks to the brooder.

 

[Heather J]

Liz, I wish I had a good broody hen, but I don't--they're all just running around having a good time, despite all of their eggs being fertile, and as my muscovy hen is broody for the first time ever, I didn't dare give her any of my expensive hatching eggs. No doubt using a broody would be much easier though. None of this watching the humidity in the incubator so closely (Even with most of the water trays full, my humidity levels look like most people's dry incubating levels), or obsessively trying to keep the temps within a degree of 100. Hopefully my silkies will hatch beautifully and I'll have all the broodies I could want next summer.