EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

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Fancy chicken lover, how did air cells look? Your humidity seems rather high...

Chicken Canoe had a full rundown of causes, but I don't know where it is. I'll have to look.
 
fancychickenlover said:
This is my first year back into poultry, from a breeding standpoint, after picking up some birds in the fall. I have young birds that are all within a year old. One pen is giving GREAT fertility and the other is just getting it back. I have 2 pens with a male covering 5 and 6 hens. The male giving minimal fertility is being moved between two pens (3 and 3) of his girls to keep him interested. (This is what got fertility back in that pen) My problem is the hatching... They go full term but wont hatch :\ i just dont get it! The bator has been calibrated but maybe a good sanitizing is in order.
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Are you hatching in a different incubator. If not how do you keep the humidity different in the cabinet incubator with so many staggered hatches? I've never had a cabinet incubator.
 
Air cells looked good. During hatch I left humidity at 50% becauee the air cells were a little small but with it at 50% this time I got a better result than when I did 60-70 humidity. For the first 4 hatches i used a sperate incubator (genesis) for hatches and was having trouble then... I did my last two batches in my cabinet incubator and got better chicks (easier time getting out of the shell) and they fluffed up better... However i still got 3 who stuck to the shell and didnt escaoe the shell and had curled toes.

Want to add that I've been spraying eggs before incubation with peroxide and a denagard mixture.
 
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fancychickenlover said:
Air cells looked good. During hatch I left humidity at 50% becauee the air cells were a little small but with it at 50% this time I got a better result than when I did 60-70 humidity. For the first 4 hatches i used a sperate incubator (genesis) for hatches and was having trouble then... I did my last two batches in my cabinet incubator and got better chicks (easier time getting out of the shell) and they fluffed up better... However i still got 3 who stuck to the shell and didnt escaoe the shell and had curled toes.
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Odd...

Curled toes reminds me of something, can't remember what for the life of me though.
 
fancychickenlover said:
Air cells looked good. During hatch I left humidity at 50% becauee the air cells were a little small but with it at 50% this time I got a better result than when I did 60-70 humidity. For the first 4 hatches i used a sperate incubator (genesis) for hatches and was having trouble then... I did my last two batches in my cabinet incubator and got better chicks (easier time getting out of the shell) and they fluffed up better... However i still got 3 who stuck to the shell and didnt escaoe the shell and had curled toes.
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fancychickenlover said:
Air cells looked good. During hatch I left humidity at 50% becauee the air cells were a little small but with it at 50% this time I got a better result than when I did 60-70 humidity. For the first 4 hatches i used a sperate incubator (genesis) for hatches and was having trouble then... I did my last two batches in my cabinet incubator and got better chicks (easier time getting out of the shell) and they fluffed up better... However i still got 3 who stuck to the shell and didnt escaoe the shell and had curled toes.
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This sounds like your humidity is running high during the whole process.
 

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