Can a weak chick be saved?

[lazy gardener]

The brooder is a heated chick pad in my garage which is 72 degrees and I have been carrying the sick chicks around in a sweatshirt with a hand warmer and making sure it doesn't get too hot in there. I hatched 16 chicks total and the 2 that hatched a day late are the ones with a problem everyone else is active. I used a hovabator Genesis with fan and turner with a hygrometer inside to monitor. Temps and humidity looked correct through incubation but may have been altered too much at the end when I opened it to take out chicks that hatched early.

Did you calibrate your thermometers, and how? If you did not calibrate them, then you can't trust what they are telling you. The issues you are seeing would not have been caused by opening the bator at end of hatch.

 

[wleigh1021]

I believe I calibrated the hygrometer with temperature when I first got it but honestly I forget. Temp in the lid was within .2 degrees of hygrometer on turner so I never calibrated the incubator. Humidity in the incubator was way off. Sometimes 15-20%. I trusted the 40% readings I tried to maintain with the hygrometer because I weighed the eggs as I candled at 7, 13, & 18 days and the weight was correct for 13% goal loss. Humidity during lockdown was at 65% until chicks started hatching. I lost readings at the end because the display on the hygrometer crapped out. Incubator read around 79% though. I plan on getting one with a probe for next time. Eggs from my own chickens had 100% hatch rate and all are happy and healthy. The eggs that were shipped was a 50% hatch rate including the 2 "runts"