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Two of my chicks died after pipping. They never did anything else. Any ideas why they didn’t zip? The humidity is been great. In fact their membrane still look wet. Image by RaptorSilkies posted May 2, 2018 at 11:32 AM

Pipped but died.

Two out and five pipping!

I do.

I’ll join you! I have a dozen buff Silkie eggs I put in the incubator on Monday. :jumpy

I Hova bator Genesis 1588 seems to be fluctuating from 99 to 99.9. I can see this when I look at the minimum and maximum temperatures in the memory mode of my thermometer. When I go and look at the thermometer I have only seen it go between 99.3-99.7. Should I be concerned? Does anyone have any...

After 25 hours I did end up helping it out. It’s running around just fine now. Completely healthy, nothing wrong.:jumpy

One has started pipping. It started 11 hours ago and hasn’t done anything but pip. It’s cheeping every now and again. I’m getting concerned. It’s not zipping.

That would be good for middle Georgia summers!

I’m so sorry about your eggs! And I hope you’re right. I will know on Sunday.

This was my test run. I started out with four eggs, but one wasn’t fertilized and one stopped developing. The other two have been coming along fine. I do hope they’re going to be OK.

This is so sad. :(:(:(

When I got up this morning my incubator temperature was 102.6. I have a have a hova bator Genesis. It’s at years old though. It has a cover over the inside temperature control setting that had come off. I have since put it back on and the temperature Has gone back to where it needs to be. I’m...

Oh these are silkie chicks.

When I got up this morning my incubator temperature was 102.6. I have a have a hova bator Genesis. It’s at years old though. It has a cover over the inside temperature control setting that had come off. I have since put it back on and the temperature Has gone back to where it needs to be. I’m...