Hatching issues

[cherrynberry]

They candled well and had a nice network of veins. I thought that means they were fertile?

Then I wii of would guess the humidity and temperature may be a problem...I am not an expert and it would be hard to tell you exactly what happened

 

[Ridgerunner]

Hi, welcome to the forum from Louisiana, gad you joined.

what am I doing wrong? Is this an egg handling issue?
Could it be my rooster?
Or is this and incubation problem?

There are a lot of things it could be. Typically if they don't develop at all or they die in the first week it's because of something that happened before the eggs went in the incubator. If they die in the last week it's because of something that happened after incubation started. There are always exceptions though and it is seldom real easy to figure it out. The best I can do is give you these links to help you figure it out.

Mississippi State Incubation Troubleshooting

http://extension.msstate.edu/content/trouble-shooting-failures-egg-incubation

Illinois Incubation troubleshooting

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/eggs/res24-00.html

You can breed father to daughter but not recommended brother to sister.

Why do you say this, many of us do this all the time? When breeders are working on a project they typically favor a father to daughter or mother to son (line breeding) over breeding siblings, but that is not because of infertility issues. It's because if you line breed you have better control over certain traits you want to enhance.

I know you see that on this forum a lot but it's not usually in context as to why.

They candled well and had a nice network of veins. I thought that means they were fertile?

It means they were fertile.