Advice please??? Extremely graphic dead embryo pics. :( Sorry, LONG

[Mrs MIA]

See... I don't get this... a hen can walk in poop, actually poop ON the eggs, turn them, kick them, leave them to get cold for a half hour at a time, and the eggs still hatch. Heck, I watched a seagull chick hatch on an exposed rocky ledge, no nest, just rocks and lichen, while being bathed in a brisk breeze from a waterfall coming off of a glacier 100 feet away... why the **bleep** can't we hatch them in controlled conditions?

 

[luvmychicknkids]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

See... I don't get this... a hen can walk in poop, actually poop ON the eggs, turn them, kick them, leave them to get cold for a half hour at a time, and the eggs still hatch. Heck, I watched a seagull chick hatch on an exposed rocky ledge, no nest, just rocks and lichen, while being bathed in a brisk breeze from a waterfall coming off of a glacier 100 feet away... why the **bleep** can't we hatch them in controlled conditions?

I have wondered the same thing so many times!!!!! Perhaps we should just start sitting on them????? I think I may try that!!!! LOL​

 

[sara]

I never had good hatches with my still air. I bought a forced air hovabator and have been having great hatches ever since. I hope the bator isn't your problem and you can come up with a solution to the problems.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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I'll empty my box...thanks! I don't know who wrote it. I've tried to find out. There isn't enough room on the line to put "anonymous" :|

 

[luvmychicknkids]

I haven't had any problems at all with my still air incubators.....well, until now.

I am just going to disinfect twice and hope all goes well next time. I am just scared right now that I am going to have some hatch with the same abdominal deformities as the others. I know it can happen and I would much rather they just die befor hatching if they are going to have a terminal defect anyway.

 

[wegotchickens]

If they were all from the same source I'd say defective genetics. But coming from different sources with a similar problem means it's the environment. What a bummer!