Eggtopsy, help with why it died?

[Asteen89]

I have another post explaining my situation. Long story short, broody abandoned eggs. I tried to save and incubator I finally got yesterday had hunting above 80%.

Chick was alive and moving in the shell as of 3pm yesterday. As of today no movement at all. Looked just like the others I opened prior to this one. I opened this one and he was in perfect position to pip the membrane. His beak was about a 1/4 inch from the shell. The inner membrane was very gelatinous under the air pocket membrane. Could it have been too much humidity? I tried lowering the humidity quick last night by removing water but my fear is temp got too low possibly while lowering the humidity.

I’m super bummed because these were special eggs to me (red blue laced wyandottes). Lesson learned if I try again with a broody is to make sure I have an incubator right away and make sure humidity isn’t too high. Or just handle purchased shipped eggs in incubator only,

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/egg-failure-to-hatch-diagnosing-incubation-problems.67011/

 

[Kiki]

The number one question is did you have a calibrated thermometer in your incubator?
If not then it is possible your incubator got too hot and killed it.
I am guessing that the word hunting means humidity... And having that high of humidity for one day most likely was not the problem but 80% is too high in an incubator in my opinion.

 

[Kiki]

Too low temperature... Is not nearly as deadly as too high.
An incubator temperature can drop for many hours way below the recommended temperature range and not be an issue.
If the temperature gets a couple of degrees too hot above the recommended temperature range then it can kill within minutes.

 

[Asteen89]

The number one question is did you have a calibrated thermometer in your incubator?
If not then it is possible your incubator got too hot and killed it.
I am guessing that the word hunting means humidity... And having that high of humidity for one day most likely was not the problem but 80% is too high in an incubator in my opinion.

Yes I had 2 thermometers/hygrometers inside my little giant since I’ve read reviews saying it was not accurate on the thermometer of the machine. I also used my meat thermometer just to triple check and the temp was staying right at 99 degrees.

I’ve never used an incubator before. I’ve been raising chickens since I was a kid and always had Broodys hatch or purchase from farm store. This was the first year I decided to purchase eBay eggs and use my broody. But then ran and grabbed an incubator yesterday after 2/3 remaining died in my emergency homemade incubator. So it’s been quite a learning curve and I have definitely learned from some mistakes.

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

Having briefly owned an LG9300, I found that it had trouble maintaining temperature and would inexplicably experience temperature spikes. As @Kiki mentioned, those can be deadly for developing chicks.

If you don't already have one, you may want to consider getting a thermometer with a memory that records the high and low temperatures so you can see if fluctuations occurred when you weren't checking it.

You also mentioned that the eggs were shipped, which often creates additional significant incubation challenges. Damage from shipping stress could have been a factor or even ultimately been responsible for the failure to hatch.

I know how disappointing it is to have chicks get to the homestretch but not hatch. Wishing you better outcomes with your next hatch!

 

[Asteen89]

Having briefly owned an LG9300, I found that it had trouble maintaining temperature and would inexplicably experience temperature spikes. As @Kiki mentioned, those can be deadly for developing chicks.

If you don't already have one, you may want to consider getting a thermometer with a memory that records the high and low temperatures so you can see if fluctuations occurred when you weren't checking it.

You also mentioned that the eggs were shipped, which often creates additional significant incubation challenges. Damage from shipping stress could have been a factor or even ultimately been responsible for the failure to hatch.

I know how disappointing it is to have chicks get to the homestretch but not hatch. Wishing you better outcomes with your next hatch!

I think the heat spike is now exactly what happened. I decided to test out the incubator without eggs and water and just have my thermometer in there to see what it’s reading. It also does give me a history of temp and humidity within 24 hours. All afternoon my temp was reading 99.3. We left and just came home and temp is reading 102.4. Yikes