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CluckNDoodle said:
Please don't feel bad! These things happen and it's not your fault! You followed all of the basic guidelines, but these often need to be altered based on what incubator you're using, where you keep the incubator, your altitude, even how porous the eggs are all impacts the level of humidity to adjust. :hugs :hugs :hugs

Well since the picture of the butt is there, I will say it looks like egg waste on both the chick in the previous post with the hernia as well as the chick with the shell stuck. Egg waste has a greenish tint to it and is the normal leftovers that you see in the egg after a chick hatches, when it dries it will be harder to get off. I would gently try to clean it with warm water and a q-tip, if it doesn't come away easily you can put some Vaseline on it and after a little while it will make it pliable again so you can wipe it off more easily.

It can be difficult to say what exactly went wrong in the hatch, there are so many factors. but since none of them got to the point of pipping internally I again am leaning toward too high of humidity in early incubation. What happens when an egg doesn't lose enough weight is that the chicks end up with a sticky substance around them that prevents them from turning properly in the egg so many of them never even pip.

I can't tell what position the chick in the first images is in but the last chick is still upsidedown which is why you're able to see the yolk sac by the air cell.
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yes I had a couple guesses from members at hatch that I had too high humidity to start. Blah. I thought I had it down but I failed:barnie:(

I guess next time I will try for a dry hatch. But I have reading to do.
So sad the little ones didn’t make it. But happy that I did have 10 to make it. I hope the two umbilical ones get good and strong
 
mamatoes said:
Do I keep just putting the polysporin on these butts? Should I let my hopes stay up that they will be ok or do these kinds of issues usually result in sadness?
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I've only had a handful of chicks with open navels, I want to say 4 or 5 over time and I did lose 1. Keeping things clean should be your primary focus. It can heal and grow to be perfectly fine it's just a matter of it being open to infection.
 
mamatoes said:
yes I had a couple guesses from members at hatch that I had too high humidity to start. Blah. I thought I had it down but I failed:barnie:(

I guess next time I will try for a dry hatch. But I have reading to do.
So sad the little ones didn’t make it. But happy that I did have 10 to make it. I hope the two umbilical ones get good and strong
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I think there were a couple of problems.

1. Temperature - Part of the problem might have been temperature. I think you said that you have a still air incubator? If so, those are supposed to run at ~101.5 I think, not 99.5.

2. Humidity - When I first started hatching peafowl someone told me 55%. I was a little nervous about that number, so I decided to run at 47%, but even that was too high. :hit

3. Styro bator - these things are notorious for temp and humidity problems and they require the use of extra sensors because the ones they come with are not reliable. The stryo bators also have cool zones and hot zones (I started a thread that shows this, will see if I can find it).
 

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