Fully Formed chicks not hatching

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Colie <3 :

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Thanks for the reassurance

I've tried lowering my temperature at hatch but it didn't seem to make a difference. I'll try it again with the next batch that have incubated at 40% humidity and see if it helps in comparison to the last batch that were incubated the same.

Just a side note but the eggs I got from you hatched the best LOL They karate kicked their way out when the others didn't even try to hatch

What kinda of diet do you feed your breeders cause Wow I was impressed

Our girls have a great diet of Flock Raiser supplemented with crimped oats, BOSS, Calf Manna, Vit. E/Selenium crumbles and "shell free nut mixture" from TSC. I have noticed that my hatch rate has gone up significantly since we started them on this diet, so maybe there is something to it!​

 

[Pippingpete]

Great thread! When reading them I was alarmed to hear your humidity was extremely low. I live in australia and have the humidity set at 50 - 55 % then lock down at 70%. I had a problem like yours for the first time. My problem was that I had someone elses eggs with mine - 6 different breeds. I noticed that her eggs weren't clean but didn't do anything about it. I used a lower humidity this time than the ones above mentioned . My outside temp was warmer. So now I am in the same boat not knowing what happened? I had lots of pipping on the right day but it seems to me the earliest chick, a White sussex chick hatched very late in the day on day 19 and moved the others around where the pipping was faced downward on alot of the other eggs. I am thinking The Creater God always does things better. Maybe the time of the year matters? cheers

 

[lakesiderider68]

This is my second batch of eggs, not one eggs hatched from the first batch. They were not able to pip because their legs were tangled in the yolk sack.I had one that was due to hatch 3 days ago so I opened it and the chicks legs were tangled up to. Anyone got a clue to whats going on??

 

[Margitas]

This is my second batch of eggs, not one eggs hatched from the first batch. They were not able to pip because their legs were tangled in the yolk sack.I had one that was due to hatch 3 days ago so I opened it and the chicks legs were tangled up to. Anyone got a clue to whats going on??

You have humidity problem, firs 18 day humidity 45-50 last tree day humidity 55-60.
High humidity chicks grow fast and so big day 21 to broke the egg shel so die in the eggs.