Candling Day 9, twins?

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We waited until today and then gave up... We eggtopsied the eggs. The twin egg had one chick that looked to have stopped around day 18 and the other stopped much earlier, it looked like two small yolks? The smaller had starter to deteriorate. Our other eggs all seemed to have died shortly after lock down. Fully developed, just had not reabsorbed all of the yolk sac. They did not appear shrink wrapped. The temperature was steady at 99.9 and the humidity was 55% first part 75% after lock down. Any ideas what we did wrong? Are hatch rate was only 29.4%, the first hatch using the same settings was 70%. The eggs were not shipped. The little chick, "Poptart", who needed help is now strong and healthy and you would never know how bad off she was to begin with.

Thanks for all of your kind words of encouragement! We will be waiting until next spring to try this again.
 
RubyNala, the PM did not come through? Thanks for all of your help.
 
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Ok this may be a amateur question but what is zipping is it where they just sit there and rest for a while or what I'm so confused
 
CrazyChickLady7 said:
Ok this may be a amateur question but what is zipping is it where they just sit there and rest for a while or what I'm so confused
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It's the final part of the hatch process where the chick rotates around in the egg and pips through the membrane and shell so it can push the top off. Once they start, it seems they do it quite quickly!
 
Thanks for letting us know. I have wondered the same questions when I have incubated my eggs. Even ones from my own chickens don't hatch at even 80%. I will keep trying.
 
I'm guessing that your temp was a bit low, and your humidity was too high. What are you using for a bator? I'd suggest getting humidity down to 30 - 40% until lock down. I have a forced air home made, and calibrate all of my thermometers before every hatch. I have at least 3 thermometers in there at all times, and have had to move eggs around, and install air baffles to accommodate high/low temp areas. I know they say to run at 99.5 for forced air, but I run at 100*, and am confident with my thermometers as they are calibrated to a medical grade fever thermometer.
 

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