This is new, youngster born after 14 days

[Hogni]

On monday i had a youngster born 4 days early, the young seems to be fine and healthy, and just when i thought it would be alone in the nest, 2 days later the other one starts to chip his egg.

 

The full story is that on the 28th of april i had a pair lay and i put under them a pair of eggs i had brought with me from Norway that same day, so eggs put under on the 28th of april=youngsters on the 16th of may but the first one born  on the 12th and the second one late on the 14th.

 

In my mind there is really only thing that can explain this and that is that the breeder in Norway did not give me freshly laid eggs although he said they were, and the youngsters had already started to develop in the eggs when taken from thier nests in Norway.

So the first egg must have been laid on the 24th of april.

 

Any ideas?

 

If this is the case the eggs are much tougher then i thought because they were taken from the nests early on the 23rd and put under late on the 24th and kept fairly cool in the meantime as i thought they were freshly laid.

[chickadee]

Is that possible? I thought eggs had to be kept at a certain temperature to help them develop properly inside the egg.

[jimmy white]

On monday i had a youngster born 4 days early, the young seems to be fine and healthy, and just when i thought it would be alone in the nest, 2 days later the other one starts to chip his egg.

 

The full story is that on the 28th of april i had a pair lay and i put under them a pair of eggs i had brought with me from Norway that same day, so eggs put under on the 28th of april=youngsters on the 16th of may but the first one born  on the 12th and the second one late on the 14th.

 

In my mind there is really only thing that can explain this and that is that the breeder in Norway did not give me freshly laid eggs although he said they were, and the youngsters had already started to develop in the eggs when taken from thier nests in Norway.

So the first egg must have been laid on the 24th of april.

 

Any ideas?

 

If this is the case the eggs are much tougher then i thought because they were taken from the nests early on the 23rd and put under late on the 24th and kept fairly cool in the meantime as i thought they were freshly laid.

 

in my opinion your right hogni,, ive had this myself, even allthough they have started to incubate for about 4 days , ive travelled wth them for 12 hours  [had them in a loaf of bread good way to carry them ] they must be tougher than we think ,,,, ive had eggs that havent started incubating about a fortnight , just in normal temperatures , but turned them regular , theve hatched no probs [nearly 5 weeks old when hatching amazing really  [but must admit ,i didnt think those first ones would hatch ]

[jimmy white]

Is that possible? I thought eggs had to be kept at a certain temperature to help them develop properly inside the egg.

 

i didnt think this was possible chickadee,but they hatched

 

you can keep them about a week ,as long as theve not been sat on [or started to incubate] but its usually different once theve began to incubate , especially 4 days