justin0803
Hatching
- Oct 29, 2023
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Hi there everyone!
I recently went to a breeder and got 6 Mille fluer and Porcelain Pekin bantam eggs. I have a Janoel 24s incubator.
She had been saving them for a week which I have read is perfectly fine.
I candled the eggs at day 8 and saw that 5/6 eggs were developing which was great!
Soon, day 19 came and I had my first chick pip and started cheaping - music to my ears.
However, this chick quickly went silent. I refrained from taking it out to see what the go was as I know that would have jeopardised the others, so I waited.
second chick pipped and very quickly unzipped it's egg and was perfectly healthy. Another soon followed and got spraddle leg, however, is now perfeclty fine after treating it.
My issue comes next. day 22 I decide to take out the two chicks and the silent egg and find that the pipped egg was dead. The two remaining eggs were not pipped up until day 23. and so I took them both out to candle them to see if they had died. after giving them plenty of time to move I surmised that they had both died. I started doing an eggtopsy on the one egg and saw that, yes, the baby had died in the egg. The second I decided to open from the air cell side and low and behold, the chick was moving!!! I felt horrible but at the same time I felt that I did everything I had learnt online and from articles.
This chick is fine and it's been another 24 hours. Tonight I will attempt to help it out and see if it will survive as I spent a lot on these eggs and would rather help than not at all.
My incubator ran very consistently at 37.5 degrees Celsius the whole time and I even increased the humidity at lockdown as recommended by many places. I just don't know what went wrong? Any help and assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Juss
I recently went to a breeder and got 6 Mille fluer and Porcelain Pekin bantam eggs. I have a Janoel 24s incubator.
She had been saving them for a week which I have read is perfectly fine.
I candled the eggs at day 8 and saw that 5/6 eggs were developing which was great!
Soon, day 19 came and I had my first chick pip and started cheaping - music to my ears.
However, this chick quickly went silent. I refrained from taking it out to see what the go was as I know that would have jeopardised the others, so I waited.
second chick pipped and very quickly unzipped it's egg and was perfectly healthy. Another soon followed and got spraddle leg, however, is now perfeclty fine after treating it.
My issue comes next. day 22 I decide to take out the two chicks and the silent egg and find that the pipped egg was dead. The two remaining eggs were not pipped up until day 23. and so I took them both out to candle them to see if they had died. after giving them plenty of time to move I surmised that they had both died. I started doing an eggtopsy on the one egg and saw that, yes, the baby had died in the egg. The second I decided to open from the air cell side and low and behold, the chick was moving!!! I felt horrible but at the same time I felt that I did everything I had learnt online and from articles.
This chick is fine and it's been another 24 hours. Tonight I will attempt to help it out and see if it will survive as I spent a lot on these eggs and would rather help than not at all.
My incubator ran very consistently at 37.5 degrees Celsius the whole time and I even increased the humidity at lockdown as recommended by many places. I just don't know what went wrong? Any help and assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Juss