Graceayekay
In the Brooder
- May 20, 2022
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Hello! New here so I need some advice. I’m incubating chickens for the first time after mainly just doing quail. I ordered eggs on eBay and noticed an egg a little cracked on the outside but thought it’d be ok in the incubator ( might’ve been my first mistake ). Things go smoothly and I go into lockdown like usual. Here comes day 21 and only one egg has pipped. After a few hours a healthy baby comes. At the end of day 21 I notice one other egg slightly pipped and moving so I figured I’d go to sleep and it’d be out in the morning. I notice the slightly cracked egg oozing so I take it out without keeping the incubator open long. Here comes the 24 hour mark with little progress on that second egg so I decide to help it out. I open the egg to see that the baby had died, then I notice that it hadn’t even punctured the air sac yet, also notice that there’s a big thing of what looks like yolk on top of its stomach. I take the baby out and that “ yolk “ was its soft stomach. There was no bleeding from the membrane so I know it was dead, and now I know to watch for bad eggs. My question is, how could it have the strength to pip the egg without even puncturing the air sac? How could this have happened??