Egg due today not drawn down yet

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Have a harris egg due to pip sometime today (31.5 days ) as of yet has not started to draw down ,,,,, But has started to twitch strongly when placed on smooth surface
Egg was started in an incubator .. I,m just wondering if it will hatch or not what do you guys think...?

[Goldie]

I assume you still have it in an incubator as you have been able to handle it. If there is movement in the egg, then no reason why it shouldn't hatch. You don't say wether you have forced air incubator or not as the humidity is crucial at time of pipping.
Why have you one egg in the inc. anyway and what are you doing with it when it hatches

[Kentish Falconry]

Have a harris egg due to pip sometime today (31.5 days ) as of yet has not started to draw down ,,,,, But has started to twitch strongly when placed on smooth surface
Egg was started in an incubator .. I,m just wondering if it will hatch or not what do you guys think...?

Hi Jez......You should still be OK M8 but stop turning the egg as soon as it draws down. I have had HH eggs go 33 days before pip and I have also had them pip at 28.5 days. Looking at my records the egg that took 33 days to pip hatched in 14 hours and the 28.5 egg took 86 hours to hatch.
Providing the egg has lost between 15% to 17% from fresh weight it should have no problems.
ATB
Terry:supz:

[Jeremiah Johnson]

I assume you still have it in an incubator as you have been able to handle it. If there is movement in the egg, then no reason why it shouldn't hatch. You don't say wether you have forced air incubator or not as the humidity is crucial at time of pipping.
Why have you one egg in the inc. anyway and what are you doing with it when it hatches

Yes in incubator forced air brinsea oct 20 was going to move to still air brinsea on high humidity soon as it pips.. Egg isnt from my birds a mate wanted me to try it for him.. I havent let my harris breed this year but she is sitting tight on dummy eggs so she will foster it (hopefully)

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Hi Jez......You should still be OK M8 but stop turning the egg as soon as it draws down. I have had HH eggs go 33 days before pip and I have also had them pip at 28.5 days. Looking at my records the egg that took 33 days to pip hatched in 14 hours and the 28.5 egg took 86 hours to hatch.
Providing the egg has lost between 15% to 17% from fresh weight it should have no problems.
ATB
Terry:supz:

Hi Terry yes weight loss is smack on had to take it up to about 25% RH between day 20 and 30 but it is bang on ... hasnt drawn down yet still
we will see... I also have a wet still air incubator ready in case it does pip

Thanks for replying jez...

[Liam Hay]

keep us posted on it jez g man was telling me of ur efforts;)

[Jeremiah Johnson]

keep us posted on it jez g man was telling me of ur efforts;)

Dunno if Dave told you the history of the egg

anyway aircell expanded at 3am this morning by a very small margin
but no longer any movement of the egg on smooth surface


just checked again no more expansion of air cell 13.10
and no movement at all

Looks a gonner .... Ill leave it in the incubator a couple of days yet though