Day 19, I can’t contain myself 😂

[Chickychickenchickchick]

Day 19 of 5 bantam eggs in the incubator, just got home from work and 1 has pipped, I swear I heard a tiny cheep and I can’t contain my excitement!!!

How long is this going to take roughly/generally?! How long before the others go?!

 

[GodLovesU]

How long will the hatching process as a whole take? Upwards of 24 hours.

 

[Chickychickenchickchick]

How long will the hatching process as a whole take? Upwards of 24 hours.

But… that’s so long

I’m so excited, there’s been nothing else happened since and this egg pipped somewhere between 8.30-11.30am today.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Sit on your hands.

 

[Ridgerunner]

How long is this going to take roughly/generally?! How long before the others go?!

For an egg to hatch it has to go through three phases: internal pip, external pip, and zip. While doing this it has to absorb the blood in the blood vessels around the embryo, absorb the yolk, and who knows what other things. Some chicks do a lot of this between internal pip and external pip. These tend to zip relatively soon after external pip. We like these. Some do a lot of this after external pip and before zip. These take forever and are stressful. Some pop out fairly quickly after external pip but some can take 24 hours or more.

I've had several hatches totally over in less than 16 hours after the first one hatches. I may get 20 chicks or more out of these hatches. I've had some hatches go well into the third day before the last hatches.

One time I had a chick hatch fairly late at night, just before I went to bed. Absolutely nothing happened until almost bedtime the next day, then I saw three pips. When I woke up the next morning another 16 had hatched and the hatch was over. None pipping for 24 hours after the first one hatched was stressful but it turned out OK.

One time I had a broody hen hatch a chick late on a Monday, well after dark. I don't know the timing on any others hatching but she did not bring her chicks off of the nest until early Friday, about 80 hours after the first one hatched. I was getting stressed on this one too but allwere OK.

Sit on your hands.

Good advice. Do not touch the incubator for a while. I suggest chopping some appropriate fruit into small pieces and serving yourself that over a bowl of vanilla ice cream. It will not make the process go any faster but try to enjoy it.

Good luck!

 

[Chickychickenchickchick]

Sit on your hands.

Yes I won’t be interfering with it, well apart from playing YouTube videos of chicks cheeping in the eggs next to it that is trying to spur them on!

I feel a bit more relaxed about the ones under my frizzle/pekin/mixed girls (yes, they’re sharing/babysitting 5!) and although they’re 2 days behind, their development seems different to the ones in the incubator at the same stage, it’s weird. All 5 were moving in the eggs under them last night.

 

[Chickychickenchickchick]

For an egg to hatch it has to go through three phases: internal pip, external pip, and zip. While doing this it has to absorb the blood in the blood vessels around the embryo, absorb the yolk, and who knows what other things. Some chicks do a lot of this between internal pip and external pip. These tend to zip relatively soon after external pip. We like these. Some do a lot of this after external pip and before zip. These take forever and are stressful. Some pop out fairly quickly after external pip but some can take 24 hours or more.

I've had several hatches totally over in less than 16 hours after the first one hatches. I may get 20 chicks or more out of these hatches. I've had some hatches go well into the third day before the last hatches.

One time I had a chick hatch fairly late at night, just before I went to bed. Absolutely nothing happened until almost bedtime the next day, then I saw three pips. When I woke up the next morning another 16 had hatched and the hatch was over. None pipping for 24 hours after the first one hatched was stressful but it turned out OK.

One time I had a broody hen hatch a chick late on a Monday, well after dark. I don't know the timing on any others hatching but she did not bring her chicks off of the nest until early Friday, about 80 hours after the first one hatched. I was getting stressed on this one too but allwere OK.


Good advice. Do not touch the incubator for a while. I suggest chopping some appropriate fruit into small pieces and serving yourself that over a bowl of vanilla ice cream. It will not make the process go any faster but try to enjoy it.

Good luck!

With the ones that went into the third day, was the first hatcher alright in there?! Or did you remove after so long? I know not to remove until they’re fluffy and dry but if it stretches to 3 days that’s quite a long time..?

 

[Ridgerunner]

With the ones that went into the third day, was the first hatcher alright in there?! Or did you remove after so long? I know not to remove until they’re fluffy and dry but if it stretches to 3 days that’s quite a long time..?

Think in terms of hours, not days. A chick can live off of the yolk it absorbs for over 72 hours. That's why they can be mailed and the post office regulations are set so they have to be shipped within 24 hours of hatch and have an expectation of being delivered within 48 hours of shipping.

Over 72 hours. That's my deadline to remove them after they hatch. To you (and me) that seems like a long time, but the chicks can handle it. A lot of people can't.

 

[Chickychickenchickchick]

Think in terms of hours, not days. A chick can live off of the yolk it absorbs for over 72 hours. That's why they can be mailed and the post office regulations are set so they have to be shipped within 24 hours of hatch and have an expectation of being delivered within 48 hours of shipping.

Over 72 hours. That's my deadline to remove them after they hatch. To you (and me) that seems like a long time, but the chicks can handle it. A lot of people can't.

Born sometime in the last 3.5 hours, I missed it!!

He/she has rolled one of the other eggs, is this going to be an issue?! I don’t know if it had pipped on the other side (that was facing up) and I don’t want to risk opening it!

 

[Traffie Chickens]

Born sometime in the last 3.5 hours, I missed it!!

He/she has rolled one of the other eggs, is this going to be an issue?! I don’t know if it had pipped on the other side (that was facing up) and I don’t want to risk opening it!

So cute! The egg will be fine. They always roll around the others. It happens every time!