Who is pipping and waiting right now??

[Mrs MIA]

My buttons are really dragging it out... they were supposed to be done on Wednesday. Two more hatched this morning, and one more hatching now. I'm afraid to toss the... how many days without activity before I can be sure they're done?!?

 

[tiki244]

I bet they are cute

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

My buttons are really dragging it out... they were supposed to be done on Wednesday. Two more hatched this morning, and one more hatching now. I'm afraid to toss the... how many days without activity before I can be sure they're done?!?

Wow you're still hatching! So how many are you up to now?​

 

[jacca5]

Ok I waited till day 25 and still nothing. So we cracked them open and in two of the four there were fully developed chicks one was black and white and one was white but they were dead. I don't know what I did wrong but the wait is over atleast now I know and I get nothing for all the worry.

 

[mangled]

Aw, sorry about your buttons.

We're at day 14, with 25 "barnyard mix" eggs in the 'bator. I just don't know how I'm going to make it one more week waiting!!

Em

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Wow you're still hatching! So how many are you up to now?

14!

And to think I thought I was going to have to settle for 1. The first one hatched Monday - #14 is catching his land legs as I type this.

proud momma here! Though, two are under watch. One has funky feet, and #11 Lucky (what I thought was the last one) has some issues but is acting like a miracle has occured.

I'm so sorry Jacca... :aww It happens, though. Mother Nature's way of the survival of the fitest. It may not have been anything you did. I do hope you'll try again!

 

[chickenlisa]

I'm on day 17 (for the duck eggs) for my first bator- it has 19 growing duck eggs and 22 chicken eggs-my 7 April swap ones, some of Silkie's bantam silkies and showgirls, and 3 of my Ameraucaunas. Most of the chicken eggs looked good on day 7 (their day 7) but the green ones were too dark to see through too well, and some of theh little ones were too porous to see clearly, and 3 of the swap ones looked clear, but not sure so they're still in there. Hatching should be somwhere around May 5th.

The 2nd bator has 29 chicken/duck eggs in it too, and was supposed to have more from a trade I had worked out with another person here, but the eggs never arrived. So the ones that are in there will be it I guess..they're on day 3, I guess (if I put them in on Thursday at 6:30 pm-is it day 2 or 3 now?)They are in egg cartons and I'm turning them every 3-4 hours. My auto turner's motor wasn't working, so I'm waiting for another one to be delivered from GQF. If those other eggs arrive on Monday, what should I do? Isn't it too late to add them to the 2nd bator?It has my favorite Sultan eggs in it along with some guinea eggs and a few others. This batch in the bator has 2 Rouen duck eggs-it was an assortment from Ebay-Cream Brabanters, Speckled Sussex, and lots of Silver Phoenix. I hope they hatch! I'll move the 2 duck eggs to the other bator once its empty...or something so they can keep going a week longer than the chicken eggs they're with.
Oh well, for a beginner, I'm hooked! Already planning the next batches to go in! But the anticipation of these little fuzzybutts is killing me! Its so exciting when its time to candle!

Lisa

 

[farmertank]

I'm on day 14 for 4 chicken eggs and 38 guinea eggs. So far they are all developing

Julie

 

[tx_dane_mom]

So far ...wait...I lost count LOL....I know out of my 15 silkie eggs I have ATLEAST 10, and only 2 are silkies, the rest are showgirls (gotta study up on what all this means) and 3 of my 8 rouen ducks have hatched so far. I have2 more silkies on the way (workin on it) and the rest a pretty questionable. One had chipped all the way around and just died...the only black.

 

[ginbart]

So far I have 9 RIR's and 2 RIW's. As of now and more on the way. I'm hoping for more of the whites.