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Shortest incubation period/earliest pippie?

LauRuffian

Perpetual Newbie
My eggs are on Day #52, so they're getting close but not quite ready for pipping yet. Still, they look eons closer than my clutch from last year, which pipped on day-freakin'-71. They're already denting and shells have noticeably thinned. I'm figuring they'll start pipping around day 60 or so.

Just for fun, what are your shortest incubation periods? Any overachievers out there pip before day 60? And for fun, how about your longest incubations?

I'm getting excited. Yay babies!
 
Back in the dark ages I once had a hovabator accidentally set too warm and hatched a clutch at 51 days. Several were DIE, but the survivors were fine. The longest I have heard of was 92 days at room temp, and they were all fused to themselves and had to be euthanized. 62ish days seems to be my average.
 
Mine usually average 66-67 days, but I did have one clutch that hatched at day 105.
It wasn't my clutch, it was given to me, and to my knowledge, had been kept in a closet at room temps. There was a temp spike that year, in the Seattle area, and many of the babies had dome heads, and more than half did not survive.
 
At 93 days, all of mine were perfectly healthy by the way. Big, strong hatchlings without a single defect ^^
 
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