- Aug 12, 2016
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Trying to compensate for a truly terrible incubator. I’ve babysat these eggs religiously the entire time, as they are from a rooster and several hens who we no longer have or lost to a predator.
We are on day 20 and we lost one chick today, and I’m paranoid now. She had even gotten her beak out and I was monitoring her breathing and movement, and then suddenly when I checked her beak was out and there was no movement. I watched and watched and just knew. Her mama was one we lost and I’m heartbroken. I took her egg out with a damp warm towel and gently removed some shell and determined quickly that I was right, she had just died.
The incubator dropped temperature for no reason at one point, down to 97.9. The humidity I’ve worked hard to keep in the 70-80s since lockdown (much lower the rest of the incubation).
Just looking for advice I guess. There are several others I’m watching that have pipped but not moved in hooooouuuuurrs. Usually with the ones that have already hatched if I made noise they’d respond. These ones aren’t. One looks like the photo below. Should I pull them out and help them a little just in case the incubator inconsistencies affected them too?
![Broken heart :broken_heart: 💔](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f494.png)
The incubator dropped temperature for no reason at one point, down to 97.9. The humidity I’ve worked hard to keep in the 70-80s since lockdown (much lower the rest of the incubation).
Just looking for advice I guess. There are several others I’m watching that have pipped but not moved in hooooouuuuurrs. Usually with the ones that have already hatched if I made noise they’d respond. These ones aren’t. One looks like the photo below. Should I pull them out and help them a little just in case the incubator inconsistencies affected them too?