Crittendenflocks
In the Brooder
- Jun 10, 2018
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Hello everyone!
I am new to hatching chicks, I do not have a hen looking to hatch for me so I am using a little giant still air incubator with forced air fan kit to hatch. This is my 4th round of eggs in the past 5 months. The first 2 hatched went great 85% hatch rates and pullets are ready to lay anytime now, we even had one from our first hatch start crowing at 9 weeks! The eggs I used for those hatched came from friends of mine. I used my own eggs for hatch 3 & 4. Hatch 3 consisted of 7 eggs 3 were unfertilized and 2 stopped developing early on with in the last 2 hatching, we lost one on day 2. Hatch 4 has been a disaster. I set 18 eggs on 11/11 and we lost power around 11/23 for about 5 hours needless to say we lost 7 eggs. We had a short power outage a couple days later for 2 hours tops. On day 18 I prepared for lockdown and all 11 eggs looked great air cells seemed nicely sized, incubator temp was steady and humidity was at 75%. By day 21 I could see eggs tilting and rocking and it seemed like we were doing fine. Day 23 we have one egg hatched and it doesn’t have the yoke fully absorbed. It seems to be lethargic and all the rest of the eggs are not showing any sign of hatching. I candled and I don’t see any pips or movement so I begin an eggtopsy. One chick was not dead! So of course that was a death on my fault( or was it) all of the rest were fully developed but had not absorbed their yokes... why would this happen? My egg shells are thick but when candling I seen no sign of internal pips!? I’m attaching the eggtopsy results in hopes that someone can help me understand what I did wrong for next hatch! I have silkie and polish eggs going in after I get the incubator set back up and I desperately want to get this right. Oh yeah and I have Ayam Cemani roosters so you may notice the black skin. Thank you I’m advance for any tips and insite
I am new to hatching chicks, I do not have a hen looking to hatch for me so I am using a little giant still air incubator with forced air fan kit to hatch. This is my 4th round of eggs in the past 5 months. The first 2 hatched went great 85% hatch rates and pullets are ready to lay anytime now, we even had one from our first hatch start crowing at 9 weeks! The eggs I used for those hatched came from friends of mine. I used my own eggs for hatch 3 & 4. Hatch 3 consisted of 7 eggs 3 were unfertilized and 2 stopped developing early on with in the last 2 hatching, we lost one on day 2. Hatch 4 has been a disaster. I set 18 eggs on 11/11 and we lost power around 11/23 for about 5 hours needless to say we lost 7 eggs. We had a short power outage a couple days later for 2 hours tops. On day 18 I prepared for lockdown and all 11 eggs looked great air cells seemed nicely sized, incubator temp was steady and humidity was at 75%. By day 21 I could see eggs tilting and rocking and it seemed like we were doing fine. Day 23 we have one egg hatched and it doesn’t have the yoke fully absorbed. It seems to be lethargic and all the rest of the eggs are not showing any sign of hatching. I candled and I don’t see any pips or movement so I begin an eggtopsy. One chick was not dead! So of course that was a death on my fault( or was it) all of the rest were fully developed but had not absorbed their yokes... why would this happen? My egg shells are thick but when candling I seen no sign of internal pips!? I’m attaching the eggtopsy results in hopes that someone can help me understand what I did wrong for next hatch! I have silkie and polish eggs going in after I get the incubator set back up and I desperately want to get this right. Oh yeah and I have Ayam Cemani roosters so you may notice the black skin. Thank you I’m advance for any tips and insite
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