Bantum Eggs keep quitting! Any Ideas How to fix?

[kid-n-chickens]

I am on my third attempt at incubating OEG Bantums. They start developing and then by day 18 have all quit. Do you incubate these differently than other chicken eggs?

 

[MagsC]

As far as I know, no.

Bump, hope it gets you more info.

 

[arbucklemurphy]

What kind of incubator are you using?

 

[onthespot]

Sounds like maybe a bacteria problem. Take it all apart and sterilize it really well and put it back together and try again. That happened to me last year too.

 

[arbucklemurphy]

The bantam egg's seem to be a little more fragile. We are hatching Moder Game bantam's and at first I was using an LG and the littlist spikes seemed to kill them. We have not converted to a Hova Bator and don't see to be having the same problem. I lost my first two bantam hatches to temp fluctuation and I'm not sure why the best that I could come up with was that maybe since they are so much smaller the temp fluctuations have a stronger effect on them. Hope this helps.

 

[kid-n-chickens]

I have used an LG for the first two batches and this thrid one is in a hovabator. The temp fluctuation kinda explains it although it was always with in a degree or two. It was never enough to affect the regular chicken eggs. I have disinfected the incubator every time before putting fresh eggs in. Thanks for the ideas.

 

[arbucklemurphy]

Mine was only within a few degree's as well but I've exhausted every other option so I'm hoping that's it. We will see if what I have in the hova bator hatches as well. I had no problem hatching regular chicken egg's or duck egg's in the LG but for some reason I couldn't hatch our bantam egg's. Hope this hatch goes better for you.