Chick speaking inside egg, how long to hatch ?

[sumi]

HELP Please!

Guys I had a pathetic day, almost all my eggs have gone bad not sure why, After keeping them in the bator for hours and hours and waiting for them to hatch, I decided to candle them and chose the 6 that I had most hope with based on candeling results. I took these and tried to make a hole to see whats going on in there.

Result:

1) 3 of the 6 blasted while I was trying to make a whole and produced smell the worst I have experienced
2) the other three didn't blast but were clearly containing dead chickens

I am sharing a photo of those 3, Can anyone out there take a look and tell me what went wrong, temp? humidity ? what ?

Reason I am asking this is I have another 6 waiting in another bator due to hatch in the next 2 days, today is day 19 for them. I want to make sure I do everything to try to safe them. Please HELP!

Here is the photo

Broken!

I'm so sorry

How awful. There are a few possible causes for embryo deaths, I can only guess from here, but in a nutshell it's incorrect temperature, humidity, and turning of the eggs while incubating, lack of or inadequate ventilation in the incubator or a bacterial infection (if eggs were contaminated by dirty incubator or hands when turning), possible breeder disease (where did you get the eggs from?), it may even be hereditary... Can you tell me a bit more about the eggs and the incubation. What was your temp and humidity during incubation? How and how often did you turn them? Where did you get the eggs? How were they handled before and during incubation? How old were they? Etc..

 

[jammyjammy2112]

i dont no much about egg topsys or what could have went rong but im sure somebody will no its great that he hatch ok iowablue mamma and coolmind1999 mine are wiggling still but i think i got or am about to get an internal pip i candele it and it looks like he is pressing up agains the air cell becouse a bit of its after getting dark thats my cochin its only day 18 my silkie egg is only wiggling my last silkie egg hatched on day 21 so im not worried hope one hatches tomorrow

 

[IowaBlueMama]

I don't know anything, but had to say that I'm so sorry. I hope you find your answer. Best wishes!

 

[mabid]

I'm so sorry

How awful. There are a few possible causes for embryo deaths, I can only guess from here, but in a nutshell it's incorrect temperature, humidity, and turning of the eggs while incubating, lack of or inadequate ventilation in the incubator or a bacterial infection (if eggs were contaminated by dirty incubator or hands when turning), possible breeder disease (where did you get the eggs from?), it may even be hereditary... Can you tell me a bit more about the eggs and the incubation. What was your temp and humidity during incubation? How and how often did you turn them? Where did you get the eggs? How were they handled before and during incubation? How old were they? Etc..

- Where did the eggs came from:

I have 4 hens and a rooster at my place, eggs came from them, a mix from all the hens

- How Old were the eggs?

About 2 weeks, I gathered them over a period of 2 weeks

- Before Incubation

I kept the eggs at room temperature which is around 26-30 C

- During Incubation

I candled them on day 5, then on day 17, there are kids around in my house so they opened the bator a few times to peek in, but temperatures here are 33+ C there days and even if the bator is left open the temperature doesn't really drop quickly.

- Temperature
All through the incubation temp was 99 F

Humidity
I had no measure of it, but humidity normally is high in this part of the world these days, never below 50%
I had the water tray on the bottom of the eggs filled with water

Ventilation:
The bator is home made and has no fan, but I had openings on the sides for air to pass

Turning:
Twice a Day, at 10AM and 10PM

Towards the End:

After I candled them on day 17 I knew that humidity should go up now, so I put a damp towel under the eggs, and used to spray water to keep it moist for the next 2-3 days.

One of the chicks that is now dead, was clearly moving on day 17 when I candled it.

Does this info help, what can I do to save the other six on day 19, I am not even sure if they are not already dead

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[jammyjammy2112]

sorry for your loss but 2 weeks is quite a long time befor your hatch rate would drop dramaticly its best to trn the eggs tree times a day and i think when you have no fan your suppose to have the top of the eggs at 102 degreese thats all i can tell you anyway and again sorry

 

[sumi]

The temperature was a bit low for a still air incubator (it should be 101-102*F) and ideally you should turn the eggs more frequently 3 + times a day, more is better. But I'm suspecting the humidity may have been an issue here. Candle the other eggs and check on them and when you see/hear signs of internal pipping make a little breathing hole for them, as you did with this chick you hatched now and check if they can breathe o.k. in there. And

 

[IowaBlueMama]

I'm a beginner, so I don't have advice. This is just what I did:

I have a homemade incubator to, actually I made three of them. (all still air) Walmart has a digital thermometer/hygrometer for 9 dollars and it's been great for me. Days 1-18 I kept it around 40% humidity and then bumped it up to 70%. Once they started hatching it bumped up more to around 80%. Temp was normally 99 degrees, but it would fluctuate anywhere from 97-102. I just monitored like crazy. I did turn mine three times a day too and I didn't save the eggs for more than 5 days before I set them. I really hope you next eggs do well. Keep us informed ok? So sorry again

 

[coolmind1999]

you wanna know a secret? this humidty out side of the bator was 55 so basically I NEVEr put my eggs in a lock down as bad as it sounds I only bumped up the humidty AFTER the first pip or they never put in high humidty in last days .... reason I didnt lock down was I had no idea what date I put them I acctually forgot any way I still got a 50 percent hatch rate 2 fluffy silkies out of 4
any way jammey good luck
dont follow what I did I insiste u lock down
keep us updated
and I had a home made still air bator

 

[jammyjammy2112]

i have lockdown yes lol theres alot of movement i hope 1 hatches tomoz

 

[coolmind1999]

finger crossed