Could Use some help (advice)

[kizanne]

I had a broody, she wouldn't break.

I gave her some of my eggs. They after 8 days showed no development.

I got some fertile about to hatch eggs. One hatched an fluffed fine with the broody.

Then 3-4 dead chicks, one squished. On dead in middle of hatch but not squished. Another dead maybe squished. Last dead in shell.

I don't know if she or the heat is killing them as I'm in Florida and it gets in the 90 degrees range.

SSOOOO...

Good or Bad I stole the 4 externally pipped eggs from her and put them my incubator. Right now the humidity is 57% I need to get that higher right? There are 3 more eggs out there not externally pipped, should I steal them?
Once fluffed should I give them back (that is currently my plan).

Any idea on if she is killing them by accident or if maybe they are dieing of the heat?

 

[Judy]

The heat can do it, I really believe. Here she is trying to keep newly hatched chicks warm with her body and they are already plenty warm -- or too warm. My few successful broody hatches have been in spring / cooler weather. The one time a broody hatched them in the summer, they all died. I found them with ants on them. Whether the heat or the ants killed them, or the broody, is hard to say.

 

[kizanne]

Thanks for the input. Does anyone else have trouble with heat in the south here?