What day should you hear cheeping inside the egg?

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Hi

I've had a look at the other posts about cheeping eggs, but they don't specify what day they hear the chick. Could anyone help me?

I am currently on day 18, am having a bad hatching rate. (I'm on my last egg now) So desperate for it to hatch and keen for any signs of life.

Thank you

Rebecca
 
Hi,
I've only hatched ducks and didn't see any rocking or hear cheeping till the day before hatching. Have you candled the egg recently? As hatching is in 3 days you need to do it no later than today as you need to lock down from tomorrow and raise the humidity ready for hatching.
 
I've hatched loads and can't remember many cheeping. They only cheep to calls from the mother and that's just as they are about to hatch, after pipping. So that would be around day 20 and as Newtoducks says they should be locked down at that stage with raised humidity and not disturbed under any circumstances.
 
No you won't see anything now Rebeccakelly1000. The chick is too dense for candling light to pass through so I would say there is definitely a chick in there. He may hatch late if the temperature was low -could be 2 or 3 days late even. The first day they go in is day zero and day 1 starts 24 hours later.
 
Fortunately they are quite hardy at this stage, but you must get it back to 37. The most important things are not to disturb the egg because the chick will be orientating itself to pip and it only has enough strength for one go and to keep the humidity high or the chick will stick to the membrane.
 
Do you have to open the box to spray the water? And what temperature is the water you are using? At this stage, opening the inci will tend to reduce the temperature further, and will also let out the humid air. It might be better just to put a damp sponge inside, wetted with hot water to start it off, then resist the temptation to open the inci at all from then on. Any temperature fluctuations which would result from opening the box would be worse for the egg than a slight difference in humidity.
 
I cut holes into the polystrene box for vent holes and i think they are too big, i've covered up a few, but i need 2 to see the temp and to shine a light in to read the thermometer. Im spraying it into the holes, The lid is not being lifted (currently has a book on top of it, trying to stop any heat from escaping) The water is at room temperature. I know have my dressing gown on top of the box and covering a few sides to try and insulate it more.

If the temp is 40- will the chick die? I think i've got the temp under control - i cant read the thermometer as i have sprayed water onto it and cant read it properly! Its all going very wrong!

This is turning into a really badly home made incubator
 
The chick will 'cook' at 40 Rebeccakelly. The temperature is reduced slightly for pipping because it is moving about and generating heat, which it needs to lose. Important you get that 37 degree temperature right. I suppose half a degree low is better than half a degree high. So I think the thermometer needs to come out and be cleaned, without disturbing the egg.
 
Okay, good news is that the thermometer that was situated at a horizontal level at egg height was showing around 37 when i had a look inside the incubator. So I've now stuck that to the wall and will be reading that one. I think the thermo/hydrometer is broken! But still no pipping.
 
If you were on Day 18 on Monday you wouldn't expect pipping until tomorrow at the earliest, probably later if the temperature may have been a bit low for some of the time. You'll just have to be patient now and see what happens. Maybe tonight or tomorrow you might notice the egg rocking a bit, before it pips.
 
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