Are there multiple forums where I can get egg hatching help, or just the one?

try the nurturing thread under guilds I think ^~^ You can also link eggies in Gen Chat as long as you don't spam~

Okay, thanks!

Just wanting to ask how long it normally takes to hatch an egg and if there are different types of eggs as in different patterns take longer or specific colors take a smaller amount of time to hatch

No, all eggs are the same- eggs that have adornments like ice crystals or fur are just eggs of the Fabled species.

All eggs technically take 3 days (72 hours) to hatch- 'technically' because if you pick up an egg from the wild rather than breeding it yourself they typically come already part-way aged.
There's a yellow bar in the genetics section of egglings that displays "X/72" where X is how many hours old it is. When it hits 72/72 it will prompt you to hatch it when you go to its page, giving you the options of 'Help'(+HP), 'leave it' (+1 to a different stat), or 'use philter' with a dropdown.

For every five nurtures an eggling gets, its timer gains an hour (once it hatches, 5 nurtures = +1 to the lowest stat in order of Str>Int>Dex>Agi, while views to their page start adding a bit to the Maturity counter, speeding growth to adolescence)

Colours merely reflect certain body colours of what wll hatch- the main shell is C2, the spots are C3. Once they reach the final stage before they hatch (often called 'peepers' or 'peekers' or the like) their eye colour and C1 become visible (save in the cases of some fabled where the C1 is already expressed, see list below)

In the case of fabled eggs:
Ice= griffi = ice M3
fur= lighira = fur C1
vines= nephini = whole egg C2, 'scales' C1, vines C3
is a flower= aeridini= bottom leaves C1
spooky mist= ryori = mist C3
scales/fins= ny'vene = whole egg C2, scales shade from C1 to C3


Different appearances of the egg in terms of cracks, however, tell you roughly how close to hatching they are to hatching

thank you very much for the information!

Added a bit more because our brain was blanking on us every time we were like 'what was that other thing?' for a while there.
Also, Aeridini have a slightly different-looking egg-age progression, but it's the same idea

hmm, well I like the concepts, and thanks for helping