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Is it possible it is some kind of disease or genetic disorder? I don't know of any that will consistently kill chicks after they hatch. There are some that will destroy your hatch rate and maybe deform the chicks, but it just doesn't sound like a disease. Your adults should show signs of...

Fair question. If a chick is in trouble I'll open it. Say an egg that has not hatched gets rolled around so half a shell from one that has hatched gets "cupped" around it. That could prevent the chick inside from pipping or zipping. That's happened a couple of times. I once hatched turkey...

Yeah, you get different opinions on whether to open the incubator during lockdown. Some do it all the time regularly, others can be quite paranoid about it. My take on it is that it can cause a chick to be shrink-wrapped but that's pretty rare. I generally don't open the incubator until the...

That's a hard one. I'm not familiar with that particular incubator. It looks like it may be Australian from what I found online. The design looked pretty basic, it has an automatic turner so turning should not have been a problem. It should work. My first thought was that they suffocated...