November 22: "Hatch Finished" Now with PIC'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[k2chickens]

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Hang in there! There's still time yet.


I received my bantam cornish eggs today! NOT a single egg was broken!!! They were packed soooo well!!!

And my bob's are still hatching, c'mon bob's!

thanks. i really hope something happens here real soon...my cross banty eggs are very important to me and my project, and seeing this is the last time i will incubate this year...come spring time i will hardly have made any headway in my breeding program

 

[Dane Chick]

Can anyone tell me how long the hatching process takes 9appx) from pip to finish? One of my little guys pipped around 2 this afternoon and it is now three hours later and it has only made 1/4" progress and is still and quiet. The Bantam egg which was peeping a ton before is quiet now too and not pip. i am getting worried about these two little guys. I know they rest while they hatch but how many hours is acceptable? And the one that is chirping and has not pipped - how long can it go inside the shell before it needs air? Any assurance would be helpful - Thank You very much.

 

[kooltex]

I think they can take as long as 24 hours to hatch after 1st pip, but I'm not 100% sure. I have bob's that were piped yesturday and have yet to hatch.

 

[k2chickens]

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true...but after that chick mortality starts going down the drain. Usually i help if the yare past 24 hrs pip'd. Still nothing inside my bator...im really upset about it, i just don't know what i could of done wrong.

 

[bigdawg]

i have one silkie almost zipped out. three more have pipped. day 18, lockdown was this am. none of the other full size chicken eggs have pipped. so do silkie bantems hatch early or not. mine are. i have new fan installed in the hova and a new egg-o-meter from incubator wharehouse. temps were steady at 99.5. anyone have any thoughts............................

 

[Dane Chick]

I just checked under my broodie and two babies!!! WOO HOO. They are out of the shell and moving. (sigh of relief). The Banty is so small and almost all black with light patches. The full sized chick is light on the bottom half and dark on the top half. The mom was pecking the full sized chick badly so i brought her in the house and put her in the incubator with the eggs at 100.5 to warm up and rest. I left the banty chick with the mom because she was still wet and seemed to be closer to just hatched. There are mites coming off the chick i brought in, which i assume is normal for broody hatching but it is disconcerting to see. I am trying to decide if i should bring the other chick up to warm up and dry off and return them to the mom tomorrow, or if i should leave well enough alone. There is one more egg with the hen and we candled it tonight and it is almost totally dark but no sound or movement. Asylum, don't fret. My chicks did not pip til half way through the 21st day and i had both bantam and full size of mixed breeds. Good luck everyone. Too bad we can't share a Friday night drink while we wait

 

[kooltex]

Congrats on babies!


I have 40 something in the brooder, had one drown in the waterer. Have a quail base, but it was obviously not drown proof, so put the pebbles in so no one else would drown. One still in the bator, it hatched with some yolk sac still there, weird. Not sure if that one will survive. There are a couple more pipped and rocking, not sure how many more will hatch, but I had to move the others out so they wouldn't peck the poor lil one with the yolk. Not the best hatch considering how many I started with. I'm putting a fan in the bator before I set my other eggs. Hopefully that will fix the hot spots throughout the bator.

 

[Emilys3guppies]

I know I haven't posted much but I thought I would update ya'll.

I set 13 jumbo coturnix quail eggs, candled to find 10 developing and 3 glowing duds. We're a-hatchin'! I've got 5 babies so far and 3 more pipped. Today is the start of Day 17, so they're right on time!

These babies make me a grandmother too! They're the first eggs I've hatched from my own birds (that I hatched from shipped eggs). WOOT! 2nd generation quail living at my house now.

Here's the first one to hatch...a little early, so she got taken out of the 'bator and put into the brooder.

 

[Emilys3guppies]

I'm also sorry to hear about DT baby. That's sad.

Congrats on the bobwhites! They're adorable! At this age you can't really tell them apart from the coturnix, can you? I've never seen a bob chick up close.

I also find that my quail tend to pip anywhere from 6-24 hours before they zip. Although, there is the odd one that will pip, zip and hatch in 30 seconds flat. LOL.

 

[retiredwithchicks]

I started with 40 eggs and culled 2. I have 4 out and several pipped at this time. This is my first set and have another set for hatching Thanksgiving Day that will go in as soon as I remove these . Those hatching now are my eggs that is a test for my new Sportsman with bought eggs to follow in three other hatches. What in the world will I do with all these chickens with winter coming up! I'm sure I'll find some room somewhere.