Nekatlla
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- Mar 7, 2017
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Hello all, just wanted to pop in and say hi and then ask a question.
I recently started a bunch of eggs in the incubator, well 22 days ago. All was going well until yesterday when we hit 21 days. At lockdown I candled the eggs and had one i'd been watching the entire time that was upon inspection never fertilized. I tossed that one and entered lock down, all else looked as expected, even had some movement I was really happy with. On day 18 1/2 we had our first pip and went to bed. In the am we had a little Americuna who is now happy and healthy. We left him in the incubator for 24 hours and he had no yolk sac so I made the choice to remove him before and other eggs pipped since they weren't due for another day if they went on time. About 6 hours later we had our second pip and I thought this was pretty cool and not as hard as it was sounding on different forums. After the second pip nothing happened until 28 hours later, that is when the chick started to zip. I was still very excited and stayed up watching well into the night then went to bed at around hour 36 of the second pip which was about 12 hours into day 21. All of a sudden the chick was almost free and I had not opened it or helped him but there was a good sized spot of blood in the incubator. The chick stopped peeping and never moved again, I went to sleep and 7 hours later it still has not moved you can see the beak protruding from the egg and not moving 99.9% sure its dead. Does this happen alot or is there a cause, like to high heat or too low heat that could cause this? Also my other eggs have not even pipped still and were almost to day 22, should I candle them or just keep going another 2 days or so? Pretty big let down just want to make sure I'm not doing something wrong to cause it.
Thanks
I recently started a bunch of eggs in the incubator, well 22 days ago. All was going well until yesterday when we hit 21 days. At lockdown I candled the eggs and had one i'd been watching the entire time that was upon inspection never fertilized. I tossed that one and entered lock down, all else looked as expected, even had some movement I was really happy with. On day 18 1/2 we had our first pip and went to bed. In the am we had a little Americuna who is now happy and healthy. We left him in the incubator for 24 hours and he had no yolk sac so I made the choice to remove him before and other eggs pipped since they weren't due for another day if they went on time. About 6 hours later we had our second pip and I thought this was pretty cool and not as hard as it was sounding on different forums. After the second pip nothing happened until 28 hours later, that is when the chick started to zip. I was still very excited and stayed up watching well into the night then went to bed at around hour 36 of the second pip which was about 12 hours into day 21. All of a sudden the chick was almost free and I had not opened it or helped him but there was a good sized spot of blood in the incubator. The chick stopped peeping and never moved again, I went to sleep and 7 hours later it still has not moved you can see the beak protruding from the egg and not moving 99.9% sure its dead. Does this happen alot or is there a cause, like to high heat or too low heat that could cause this? Also my other eggs have not even pipped still and were almost to day 22, should I candle them or just keep going another 2 days or so? Pretty big let down just want to make sure I'm not doing something wrong to cause it.
Thanks