Day 24 and NOTHING!! HELP!! UPDATE-They are still alive!

[willow]

Ok, I 2 hatch on day 19, I thought they were the shipped eggs but they were mine.

1 hatched on it's own, the other got stuck to the dry membrane but I caught it in time. They are both doing great.

I still have 36 shipped eggs in the 'bator and none of them have pipped. No smells. Should I leave them in longer? If so, how long?

Should I candle them again? Should I just do the eggtopsys?

I am so upset about this I don't know what to do. I'm really thinking of just not incubating anymore.

I have them in my old round Sears 'bator, temps have been good, humidity good. I put them in egg cartons this year and "turned" the 'bator. At least last year I got some eggs to hatch, this year none.

HELP!!

 

[newdock]

I would take one egg out and chip away at the air cell end and see what's up - if it's dead, I would keep going. Since you had some of your own eggs hatch, especially early, I wouldn't expect it to be a low temp problem....

 

[willow]

Ok, I opened 4. 3 died very recently, the last was alive but not fully formed. It's intestines where out. Boy, this is messed up!! I'm just going to leave them several more days.

 

[Backyard Farm]

I would suspect that they didn't make it. Very sorry!

I agree with Newdock.

I 've had really good luck and really bad luck with shipped eggs. ...so many variables. Since some of your eggs hatched, I am thinking that this at least part of the problem.

If you are using a digital temp/hygrometer maybe verify by doing some wet bulb reading to compare.

Also, I have MUCH better hatch rates when I set/adjust humidity by egg weight loss than just looking at hygrometer readings.

So sad very so many don't make it!!