Chicks pipping but dying in the egg

[CatDaddyAlbert]

With a humidity level like you have......unless something bad happened when you were not looking...I am lost for a answer. I am sure going to keep up with this thread to learn what it might be!!!

 

[easttxchick]

They're not flipping in the shell and drowning, are they?
Rupturing their yolk sacs, possibly?
Sorry, just trying to think of what could be happening.

 

[Ceinwyn]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=523530

Two links included listing everything that can go wrong and when.
Sorry this happened to you.

 

[iajewel]

When I peeled open the eggs that didn't hatch and were dead, so.... I coudl open then with out harm as the harm was done, The yoke was almost all ex-orbed, they just didn't make it past pip. Like I said I have hatched for years, never had this happen.. ever.. so Im at a loss.

 

[iajewel]

next one I know is dead, I will open it and post photos so everyone can see what I see. Right now, Im waiting on more to either come or go.

 

[Ceinwyn]

your humidity is on the high side at 70-78%
if the membranes appear really thick and the chicks looks sticky and covered with thick albumen then the humidity is too high.
Also if these are your chicks what diet are the laying hens using.
What type of chicks?
How old are the laying hens and rooster?
Are they related?

 

[floridachickhatcher]

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Oh yes i forgot about related chickens! When i was hatching out for the first times alot of my chicks were dying and i told my mom that the roosters we bought the chickens with could have been brother and sister so we swapped them out

 

[iajewel]

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Yup, the membrain does look thick, so can lesson the humidity.
The hens are in a very large yard with natural feed, grass etc as well as laying mash.
They are Orpingtons, however I have lost ducks and geese to the same thing, same humidity etc.

Hens are from last year to 3yrs, and others that bought my eggs have no issues nor do my broodies
Nope.. not to related, they are a bit, but not enough to worry about. Some are even cross breds.

 

[Ceinwyn]

Laying mash is great for laying but not for breeding. If you continue having this problem I'd try adding animal protein and brewer's yeast to their diet and see if that helps.
Usually if incubation procedures are followed on fertile eggs and you have large dead in shell numbers its diet related.

 

[iajewel]

So just let them free range? Remember the broody hens didn't have this problem. They are hatching out 15-25 per clutch and doing just fine. Same eggs, same time frame, different methods of hatching.