I am new at this, after reading everyone's fun hatching experiences, I had to go out and get an incubator for myself. I decided to go low end, see how I liked it, then perhaps upgrade. I got a LG with no turner, no fan. I bought some eggs and they were shipped, and I also collected some of my chicken's eggs as well to compare.
I religiously read all what people had to say about humidity, temps, turning etc..... and now I have some chicks!
My shipped eggs all arrived intact, and I placed three of them under a hen who just hatched three of her own, but a day later was happily sitting on these new ones. She is still sitting, we will see what happens. The rest I put in the incubator with my collected eggs, and I think I got a duck egg in there too perhaps.
After candling, which was so amazing to see, I dumped all of the shipped eggs, some I believe were not fertile. Most of the eggs I collected seemed like they had something going on.
Anyway........it's a day early, but when I got up, most of the eggs were pipped and now a couple hours later I have three chicks.
My question is, how long can it take after the eggs are pipped for the chick to come out? Seems like some that are pipped, I can't see anything else going on. I am not sure if something went wrong, or if it's normal to have pipping and then a long wait until anything further happens. They are a day early, too hight temps or what, but they were due to hatch tomorrow.
If it makes a difference, the ones that are out are 2 buckeyes and 1 turkin out of big brown eggs, and most of the others are cochin frizzles.
I religiously read all what people had to say about humidity, temps, turning etc..... and now I have some chicks!
My shipped eggs all arrived intact, and I placed three of them under a hen who just hatched three of her own, but a day later was happily sitting on these new ones. She is still sitting, we will see what happens. The rest I put in the incubator with my collected eggs, and I think I got a duck egg in there too perhaps.
After candling, which was so amazing to see, I dumped all of the shipped eggs, some I believe were not fertile. Most of the eggs I collected seemed like they had something going on.
Anyway........it's a day early, but when I got up, most of the eggs were pipped and now a couple hours later I have three chicks.
My question is, how long can it take after the eggs are pipped for the chick to come out? Seems like some that are pipped, I can't see anything else going on. I am not sure if something went wrong, or if it's normal to have pipping and then a long wait until anything further happens. They are a day early, too hight temps or what, but they were due to hatch tomorrow.
If it makes a difference, the ones that are out are 2 buckeyes and 1 turkin out of big brown eggs, and most of the others are cochin frizzles.
