Thanks so much for your reply! We ended up hatching 19 healthy babies, two that died for unknown reasons and 7 with wry neck that was bad enough they ended up dying from being unable to get themselves off their backs. I’m definitely going to try your humidity levels for this next batch
Thanks I have another set of eggs waiting to incubate starting tomorrow! I’ll try the higher temp. I didn’t think the color contributed to the hatching problems but it is interesting that the only one differently colored is also the only one that took forever to hatch but seems healthy! I am...
It ended up hatching very early this morning and is a different color than all the rest interestingly enough. The one I was less worried about ended up hatching as well but had some unfixable issues and needed to be culled sadly. You can see the one I am talking about in this comment is circled...
As a little update the one that started zipping last night hatched with the worst case of wry neck I’ve ever seen so that explains that. It needed culled unfortunately but the other egg just successfully hatched and seems perfectly healthy. A few more hatched in the night so we have had a total...
The egg I’m most worried about is this one. You can see feathers through the membrane and through the pip hole. They’ve been pipped for about 28 hours now and the hole has gotten bigger and you can see the chick moving a little bit through the membrane but no progress. The other egg is now...
Hi! I recently started hatching my first group of 72 eggs. Out of 72 on day 14 I candled and 51 were fertile and growing well. I locked down the incubator at 99.5 F and 65-70% humidity. At 6 pm last night we had four pips on day 18. Since then we have had 6 successfully hatch and have 11 more...