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egg hatching time span any advice appreciated, egg gone missing now

#1 User is offline   ferreterni 

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Posted 10 May 2009 - 05:14 PM

Got a thread running on my broody oeg hatching eggs, have a question now though. All the eggs were laid over the course of a week and held back to the one day. I put them all under at the same time as you do. Question is now, 3 hatched yesterday and nothing since then. What sort of time span would there be between first egg and last hatching? They are sebrights and other true bantams. Any advice appreciated as I don't want to remove them as dead until they are definately over time.

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Posted 10 May 2009 - 05:21 PM

View Postferreterni, on May 10 2009, 06:14 PM, said:

Got a thread running on my broody oeg hatching eggs, have a question now though. All the eggs were laid over the course of a week and held back to the one day. I put them all under at the same time as you do. Question is now, 3 hatched yesterday and nothing since then. What sort of time span would there be between first egg and last hatching? They are sebrights and other true bantams. Any advice appreciated as I don't want to remove them as dead until they are definately over time.

Thanks in advance.

did you turn the eggs over from the start of the week,some times they can settle, atb mp
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 05:23 PM

You should find that they will hatch within 24 hours of each other.......
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 05:24 PM

Aye, did all that. Was just sort of expecting them all out within the day. I didnt candle them though at any point as they were under the hen. If they turn out to be dud then the other oeg going broody and she can sit on another clutch, but I don't want to do anything to soon if these are likely to hatch in next couple of days.
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 05:41 PM

just looked in again, 3 hours ago was 8 eggs and 3 chicks now i have 7 eggs and 3 chicks. What happened to that egg????
one of the eggs looks like it is starting to hatch, pushed out from inside, but it looked like that yesterday too. It's my first chicken hatch, so I'm not sure if it's going like it's meant too.
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 06:04 PM

Should I pick off some shell of the one that looks hatching, or wait a bit longer?
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Posted 11 May 2009 - 02:09 PM

Still only 3 hatched. Have read that can go onto day 25 which would be tues/wedsday. Don't want to give up to soon, nor flog a dead horse haha
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Posted 11 May 2009 - 04:46 PM

Spoke to the bloke I got the eggs off, and he said to crack one and see, has been 23 days. All were rotten, one popped when I tapped it. Going to let the other bird go broody and set some under her, try some sebtights again. Also, this bloke is after some black dutch eggs or a wee black dutch rooster if anone knows anything let me know please. Thanks for all help and pms I got. :)
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