This year's eggs Update:Damsel on nest

[ColbyNTX]

Just make sure your humidity is good and DO NOT OPEN THE BATOR and they should come out. I don't help anything out unless it has been 24-30 hours.

 

[MinxFox]

Yep the humidity should be good and I haven't been opening the incubator so now I will just wait! When do you hear them peeping? We keep walking in there and peeping at the egg to encourage it but I haven't heard anything. Do they not peep until it is much closer to the hatch? They pip at the big end right with the air cell? So do they break the air cell and use that to breathe and then from there they break the shell? Sorry the only time I have seen a bit of a bird hatching in person is only about a month ago when we found a buzzard nest in an old building and one of the eggs was pipping and making noise and moving. It was sooo amazing we would have stayed and watched it but we sure didn't want a baby vulture imprinting on us!

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Minxfox,,the egg moving is a good sign,,shows activity inside the egg.If you hold the egg close to your ear you can hear "pecking" and as the chick gets stronger,closer to pipping,you can hear it make "cheeping" noises as well.Once it "pips" check the time,,I have seen them take 48 hours from that time to make it out,but everyone of the peachicks that takes that long to emerge I always have crooked toes,or spraddle legs.If they are strong and other peachicks are hatched out already and continue the peachirpping back and forth,this seems to encourage the others to get out faster. But if you only have one due to hatch,it may take longer.
I always notice the time when it pips,,and if 24 hours passes by and no progress,then I begin to peel shell back. If I notice any blood coming from the membrane I immediatly stop,and wait another 4 hours to possibly peel,or crack some more shell off.Sometimes you will notice the inner membrane has stuck and dried on the peachicks head,or wing and this may slow down it's pipping progress,,kinda looks like a mummy inside the shell.Of the membrane has dried and no blood is coming from the membrane being torn away,and it has been longer than 24 hours,,then I wouldn't hesitate to help break the shell,possibly 1/3 of the way around,then wait for an hour and see if the peachick makes progress on it's own,,and if not,peel some more shell away,,,until it's very possible you have helped the chick out entirely.Sometimes they are just too weak from an overly hard shell,or from the membrane drying on them to get out on their own,and they are worth too much not to intervene in my opinion.

 

[poultryfan73]

I agree best of luck with your soon to be peachick!

 

[MinxFox]

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Okay thanks that clears a lot up! This morning I thought I heard a tapping noise like the pecking you were talking about. I haven't heard it cheep yet but now that I am home from school I will stay next to the incubator and talk to it while I study for finals. The egg is a little bit in the corner of the incubator so I can't see a bit of one side of it but hopefully I will still know when it pips. This egg is alone so I have been making peeping noises to make it sound like another peachick so that hopefully it will be encouraged out.

So when it hatches I leave it in there until it dries right? We were thinking for a heat lamp we could use a small metal clip on lamp that gets pretty hot quickly. I think it generates some good heat. Or we could use a small swiveling lamp. That would be okay right as long as the peachick doesn't seem to be getting cold. Our school agriculture class hatched out some chicken chicks and a girl took them home and her light was faulty or her brooder or something like that and it caught all the chicks on fire and they died...I don't want that to happen to me, but we use these lights a lot and I don't think there is a problem with them.

 

[jimmythechicken]

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Okay thanks that clears a lot up! This morning I thought I heard a tapping noise like the pecking you were talking about. I haven't heard it cheep yet but now that I am home from school I will stay next to the incubator and talk to it while I study for finals. The egg is a little bit in the corner of the incubator so I can't see a bit of one side of it but hopefully I will still know when it pips. This egg is alone so I have been making peeping noises to make it sound like another peachick so that hopefully it will be encouraged out.

So when it hatches I leave it in there until it dries right? We were thinking for a heat lamp we could use a small metal clip on lamp that gets pretty hot quickly. I think it generates some good heat. Or we could use a small swiveling lamp. That would be okay right as long as the peachick doesn't seem to be getting cold. Our school agriculture class hatched out some chicken chicks and a girl took them home and her light was faulty or her brooder or something like that and it caught all the chicks on fire and they died...I don't want that to happen to me, but we use these lights a lot and I don't think there is a problem with them.

first they rock then the pip then hatch.some of our chicks are pretty noisy some dont make any noise.we have found that they hatch at night into the am most of the time.just make sure you lamp is rated to hold a 100watt bulb that should be fine.we are hatch some wild turkey eggs little blue saved from being destroyed they were clear cutting to build a house

an we have 3 piped right now the neat thing is when we hatch chicks an turkey it is so noisy the wild birds make no noise very interesting they are all rocking but no noise.once it hatch's open you vents to give it more air an lower humidity so it will dry out faster.good luck we cant wait to see pics we are going into lockdown in a few hours 2 pea eggs an 20 orpington eggs.

 

[jimmythechicken]

both are pea eggs are piped.debbie is so excited she said she is keeping the first one that hatches.all 11 of her wild turkey eggs are piped an one has hatched.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

e SO exciting, keeping up with all this action!!!! Next year it'll be my turn!

 

[snowshoe]

Here in Pennsylvania if you take turkey eggs from the wild and hatch them you can be fined and they will take the poults, you are just suppose to let them and let nature take it course. And I have heard they will destroy baby animals instead of trying to care for them but this is not always the case it all depends on the game Warden you are dealing with.

 

[jimmythechicken]

it was a nest getting destroyed by some land clearers putting in more houses we called our local wildlife rehaber he told us to go ahead an hatch them an then we could bring them to them.in our state there is about 50-60 wildlife rehabers who take in wildlife an raise them till they are ready for the wild or just stay as training animals for students in local schools.in our state if you are caught with eggs or birds an have not reported them it is a 5,000$ fine per bird or egg.