Love reading the updates and seeing all the pictures! Congrats on everybodies babies!
And I'm so sorry for everyone dealing with problems and/or loosing little ones
I'm grateful I could participate, this was my first hatch.
Yesterday (day 26) I turned the incubator off and took out the last two eggs...
From the 35 eggs I set 23 did hatch (sent a pm yesterday).
From my 15 shipped bantam Silkie eggs 12 babies hatched.
One egg had been not fertilized, one quit unfortunately around day 6 and the last egg Iooked good when it went into lockdown but unfortunately the baby never pipped. After several days without any sign of life and I opened the egg. The baby was fully developed and I couldn't make out any malformations or defects. This baby never pipped internally so I assume this little one unfortunately died on day 19 or 20
From my friend's 20 bantam Brahma x Deutsches Buschhuhn-mixes eggs 11 babies hatched.
5 eggs were not fertilized. One perhaps quit unfortunately the first days of development (mini grey point in the yolk). One unfortunately quit around day 7. One looked good when it went into lockdown but then nothing happened. After waiting several days there was still no sign of life and I opened the egg. The little one inside was notably small but well feathered - comparing with pictures I think he/she unfortunately died on day 18
One pipped externally and I discovered this in the evening of day 21. In the morning of day 22 there was no progress and I examined it closely. I could see the little beak in the external pipped hole and when gently touching it I immediatley knew the baby inside unfortunately was dead, because it was stiff
I opened the egg, the little one still did have part of the yolk sac outside and there was a lot of yellowish stuff inside the egg. This baby was so close...I don't know what happened. I will start a thread with pictures and hope for opinions on what possibly happened.
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