Do you do Eggtopsys?

[Rainwolf]

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I give eggs 3 days from due date or 3 days from last hatched chick which ever is longer.
I then either candle or float test to double check that none are alive.
THEN I eggtopsy....

I always suggest making dang sure they are dead before cracking... the first live one you crack open will break your heart.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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I give eggs 3 days from due date or 3 days from last hatched chick which ever is longer.
I then either candle or float test to double check that none are alive.
THEN I eggtopsy....

I always suggest making dang sure they are dead before cracking... the first live one you crack open will break your heart.

I had one who was 4 days late, I didnt bother doing the float test because I assumed it was dead. It wasnt, poor little guy

 

[elizabethbinary]

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that sounds like a story

I have yet to have one "explode" on me but I do all my eggtopsy outside over the yard waste bin so that in case it pops its not inside and stinking my house up.

I was smart, I had my husband check.

He was not so smart, he listened.

I called him 'smelly egg face' for weeks.

 

[Sueg4332]

I do Eggtopsys too. As I dont candle misplaced the candler. I find most that didn't hatch weren't fertile. Some seem to died at lock down, some just not strong enough too get out.

I find it quite interesting.

 

[chkinut]

i did it tonight for the 1st time ever. i candled my 3 sets of eggs today, day 9, 10, and 11. 2 of them i was unsure, so i left them in the bator for later. but 7 of them i cracked open and there was no growth at all....so must've been infertile. i have the guts to do it now.....but i couldn't do it if they got any bigger. i won't do it for the one's that don't hatch. but i look up to those that can. i'm just a chicken....just like my pets....lol.

 

[sanchoman]

I had 6 that were due on the 21st ... that haven't hatched.

I just cracked one open and there was a chick that still had alot of yolk with her... and she was kicking and opening & closing her beak.

 

[chkinut]

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Aww! how sad! i think i'm gonna keep all my eggs in the bator till day 28 or something....that breaks my heart and i'm so sorry for you!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! That's hard to see, sorry. Did you notice your temperature was low or power-out or anything that would have contributed to the embryos being so far behind?
I had chicks here due the 21st and they didn't hatch til 23rd, but my incubator got unplugged for 3 nights in a row (accident) when they were mid-way in development. A great many of mine perished from the 'cool-down' 3 nights, but surprisingly, I had a few tough chicks pop out. I checked the rest of mine and the possibles had passed by Day 23.
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[Rainwolf]

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so sorry!
Thats why I candle, float test and everything before I crack open... I want to make sure that does not happen to me again

Maybe some of the other 5 are good and will hatch but just way behind?
low temp will delay them quiet a bit sometimes.

 

[Farmergreen]

I'm one of them whatever you said. I started out setting 40 eggs and getting 10 or 15. I Cracked eggs read, looked at pictures of what it looked like. Got a good Incubator. A year later I get a good 60 to 80 %. My Golden Rule is "stay out of the Bator". Humidity and temp is always an issue. Every time the door is open is an issue.