Day 30-Should I give up?

[Kindafarma]

I'm on day 30 with guinea eggs in my incubator. It's a LG still air 9200, and the eggs were from my own guinea hens. I had candled them right along and they seemed to be growing and moving around, turned them faithfully, and the temp stayed about the same at 100 degrees, kept water in it. Why aren't they hatching?

Should I give up on them and start a new batch?

 

[zazouse]

I have never had any hatch past 28 days.
Do you see any pips at all?
How many eggs do you have in the bator?

 

[dorthal]

I incubated a lot of guinea eggs last year. Anything past 28 days, if growing normally before, usually had died in the shell. It is indeed heartbreaking. Hope you have better luck next time.

 

[Kindafarma]

I have 8 eggs in there. No pips, although I've looked at them so long, that I start hallucinating that I SEE pips.

 

[thechickenchick]

Oh! I feel your pain

I just did my first Guinea hatch. I have hatched before and was so excited. Well we had 2 power outages, one lasting 30 plus hours. My DH felt sorry for me as it was lock down day, he ran to town and got a generator just to run the bator. I had 2 pips, sadly only one little guy hatched. I have heard that low temps may cause them to hatch late, so I waited until day 31 to pull the plug. So I now have one lonely little keet, chirping away! I have 3 teen guineas, so he will have friends as soon as he is big enough

 

[Kindafarma]

I couldn't stand it any longer and chipped a little hole in the large end of the egg. Nothing was moving behind the membrane, so I made a little hole in the membrane, ick, lots of blood, still no movement. So I took it outside and took it out of the shell. It's feathers had developed, and it was curled around what looked like an egg yolk. Can any one tell from the description, when the chick died and stopped developing?

 

[grammy of David]

I NEVER EVER STOP INCUBATOR AT 28 DAYS....I HAVE HAD THE HATCH ON DAY 31, SO LET IT GO AWHILE PAST NEXT TIME.... 5 DAYS OR SO. I HAVE NEVER HAD A EGG EXPLODED DURING LOCK-DOWN AND I HAVE OPEN A COLD INCUBATOR TO SEE I DID NOT WAIT LONG ENOUGH AND THERE WAS A VERY COLD LITTLE LATE HATCHING KEAT......STILL ALIVE. KEATS ARE LIKE BABIES..... NOT ALL ARE BORN ON THE DUE DATE! I LOVE HATCHING GUINEAS

 

[TennesseeTruly]

I don't know why they may have died but I don't give up on eggs that don't hatch unless its necessary. I've had chicks hatch as late as 26 days. I've had guinea keets hatch as late as 32 days.

If you're humidity was too high, they could have drowned. If it was too low, they could suffocate. Its a catch 22.