You get an amount of hatches each day. for ranchers, you get to hatch three eggs a day. for merchants, you get to hatch one egg a day. some people want more hatches than what they already get, so they buy hatches. This means that they send an egg to someone and that someone hatches the egg, names the creatu, and sends it back. Did that help?

yes! that helped very much so! >3< thank you! :3