April 2023 Hatch-A-Long

[lilwanderer]

I can hear 5 out of the 8 turkeys moving around in the egg! (Don't hate me, I have the humidity raised high enough that if i do open it, not enough humidity will exit the incubator enough to actually hurt the chicks. ) 3 out of the 5 are chirping.
Question to those turkey hatchers, after they first internally pip, on average how long does it take for them to externally pip? Does it usually take longer then chickens?
Reason I ask is because yesterday evening one of the eggs you could hear pecking and kicking around in the egg, and as of right now I do not hear chirping, just movement still, and it hasn't externally pipped.
The 4 other eggs all internally pipped today, and 3 of those 4 are chirping already.

 

[OzarkCountryGirl]

I can hear 5 out of the 8 turkeys moving around in the egg! (Don't hate me, I have the humidity raised high enough that if i do open it, not enough humidity will exit the incubator enough to actually hurt the chicks. ) 3 out of the 5 are chirping.
Question to those turkey hatchers, after they first internally pip, on average how long does it take for them to externally pip? Does it usually take longer then chickens?
Reason I ask is because yesterday evening one of the eggs you could hear pecking and kicking around in the egg, and as of right now I do not hear chirping, just movement still, and it hasn't externally pipped.
The 4 other eggs all internally pipped today, and 3 of those 4 are chirping already.
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I've found that with my heritage breed Narragansetts, the time frame to go through each pip/zip/hatch stage is the same as my large fowl heritage chickens (Orpingtons, Brahma, RIR, etc). The only thing that takes longer is the initial incubation period.

 

[gimmie birdies]

My girlfriend came and got 3 chicks, yeah!, She also bought some from a feed store, one was already "gasping" it would open it's mouth and make a gasping motion, but not a peep. It's eyes were still open. I told her give it egg yolk, and it could have been the result of shipping. I also think since hers were from the feed store, no one did pre-care when it arrived. She did wait a day before buying it.

Anyway, my yellow from a blue egg hatched this morning is all fluffed up, one, dark gray/black chick hatched from a small orang-y/tan egg, and I have 3 pips/zips left. 2 blue eggs and one dark brown egg, I will be ready to clean that incubator!
The above 5 will go in brooder with 6 in brooder.

I was in town a couple days ago, I will admit, I looked at local store eggs to buy. I didn't buy any though. does that mean I am done for a while? I wish eggs would stop demanding to be incubated.

 

[OzarkCountryGirl]

Beautiful eggs!

Thank you

 

[gimmie birdies]

2 last blue eggs hatched black chicks, the last egg a dark brown egg has pipped. I am sure it will hatch, but it was a wrong end pip, I help a little, but I am keeping him in the egg until he comes out on his own, I don't want to have a chick with curled toes and weird bellybutton.

My last 2 eggs were wrong end pips, and I will admit it was hard to keep water in incubator since I had a staggered hatch going.

 

[lilwanderer]

That egg that had internally pipped on day 26 has now externally pipped (day 28),
can't see his little beak yet though. The 7 other eggs have all interally pipped now, nothing externally yet though.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Looks like that's it for mine. Last batch of 12 = 1 chick hatched. At least it's a cutie.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I had to help the very last egg hatch, the dark brown. It may be a blue maran.

 

[Honora]

Looks like that's it for mine. Last batch of 12 = 1 chick hatched. At least it's a cutie.

Sorry to hear you only had one hatch. Can she go in with your other chicks?

 

[Canadian Wind]

Sorry to hear you only had one hatch. Can she go in with your other chicks?

I'm attempting it. All the others are so much bigger, older by a minimum of two weeks. And I have three ducklings in there too.

I need a bigger house... Wait, scratch that, I need to live in something else than a trailer!