HELP BLOODY CRACKED EGG 😥

[CaliFarmsAR]

You can but if they start to bleed STOP!

 

[kelseyk]

Yes i do the humidity I kept at around 54 in the begging and am now keeping it at 65 but we did have a power outage for a few hours?

Not sure of outside humidity where you are. I run my incubator at between 40-45% humidity on days 1-18 and between 60-65% at lockdown. So may have been just slightly high on days 1-18. What has your temp been at throughout? I would think a couple hour power outage wouldn't have had too much affect on the eggs if the lid was kept on the incubator.

 

[Heyyyyyy6689]

How are the chicks doing? Did the bleeding stop? I had a chick that hatched a week ago but when she was hatching she had bleeding but I let her do her thing and she mad it! But she also hatched on day 22. Which day are your chicks on?

Day 22 the bleeding had

Not sure of outside humidity where you are. I run my incubator at between 40-45% humidity on days 1-18 and between 60-65% at lockdown. So may have been just slightly high on days 1-18. What has your temp been at throughout? I would think a couple hour power outage wouldn't have had too much affect on the eggs if the lid was kept on the incubator.

yeah the temp had been between 99.3 - 100.5 but when I open the lid to candle them it sometimes would go down a bit

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Day 22 the bleeding had

yeah the temp had been between 99.3 - 100.5 but when I open the lid to candle them it sometimes would go down a bit

And that I believe is ok! It happens to me as well!

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

How are the chicks

 

[kelseyk]

Day 22 the bleeding had

yeah the temp had been between 99.3 - 100.5 but when I open the lid to candle them it sometimes would go down a bit

Well, your temp looks to be in the right range too. The only other thing I can think to ask is if your incubator vents are completely open (that was the mistake I made when I first started). If so, then you are doing everything right. So unless your incubator has a tendancy to drop and/or spike the temp for long periods of time like my old lemon of an incubator did, it could just be the batch of eggs.

 

[Heyyyyyy6689]

How are the chicks

This morning I made safety breathing holes and one of them started talking!!! The bleeding one is still moving and the bleeding has stopped but I am worried that he/she is in malposition and that is why he still haven’t absorbed the blood vessels. I don’t really understand why the other eggs are not hatching ether but all the eggs are currently still alive so yeah.

 

[Heyyyyyy6689]

Well, your temp looks to be in the right range too. The only other thing I can think to ask is if your incubator vents are completely open (that was the mistake I made when I first started). If so, then you are doing everything right. So unless your incubator has a tendancy to drop and/or spike the temp for long periods of time like my old lemon of an incubator did, it could just be the batch of eggs.

What do you mean by open vents? The temp only drops when I open it and within a minute or 2 it goes back up. I am really confused why. Thank you for your help though

 

[kelseyk]

What do you mean by open vents? The temp only drops when I open it and within a minute or 2 it goes back up. I am really confused why. Thank you for your help though

Every incubator should have vent holes in it to allow air to circulate. Some incubators are sent with plugs in the vent holes. Below is a pic of my hovabator and I circled the 2 vent holes. When I unpacked and set up my hovabator, it had little red plugs in those holes that needed removed before use. If you don't have vent holes for air circulation, the chicks can make it all the way to lockdown but many will die in the shell due to lack of oxygen. I had 3 extremely poor hatches before I figured this out.

The temp and humidity will both drop when you open the lid. That is completely normal and will not affect your eggs. Think of the lifting the lid for short periods of time as a broody hen getting up to eat it drink. Your humidity and temp sound spot on. So the only other things I can think that may have an affect on the hatch is lack of air circulation due to closed or partially closed vents, a faulty incubator, or the eggs themselves. If your vents are open, then my next step would be to try again and use eggs from a different source. If after that the outcome was still the same, I would start looking at the incubator itself. (That is how I discovered my old incubator was a lemon - intense monitoring because my hatches had improved after the vent situation but still not the greatest).

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

This morning I made safety breathing holes and one of them started talking!!! The bleeding one is still moving and the bleeding has stopped but I am worried that he/she is in malposition and that is why he still haven’t absorbed the blood vessels. I don’t really understand why the other eggs are not hatching ether but all the eggs are currently still alive so yeah.

I’m glad you made holes for them and if awesome that they are still alive!