Help! Day 26, 17 of 20 dead, one alive, one just barly internaly pipped.

[ChickaGalaxy]

I started some chicken eggs like normal, (I usually have a 80% hatch rate) but hatch day came and went and none hatched. It's now day 26 and I've been really worried. One hatched yesterday, needed a little help and is now doing fine. 3 eggs left in incubator, one I'm pretty sure is dead, the other two are alive and still moving. One finally internally pipped this morning but was super weak. I gave it a air hole and it's doing better. But I'm pretty sure it's out of yoke by now and is hungry, I don't know if there's anything I can do for it but if there is I want to do it. I need at least one more of these eggs to hatch so the one baby isn't alone. But there are still blood vessels (I can see when candled) so I can't pull it out. And the other one is still alive but hasn't internally pipped, so I don't know what to do. I've never had this happen before and I'm super worried. There was a blackout during the beginning of incubation, but it only lasted 2 hours, so I don't think it should have effected anything. I really need help, I don't know what was wrong in the first place or what I can do now.

 

[sourland]

Good luck at getting another survivor. It sounds like the eggs were incubated a too low of a temperature. I'd check/calibrate the thermometer before setting more eggs.

 

[ChickaGalaxy]

Good luck at getting another survivor. It sounds like the eggs were incubated a too low of a temperature. I'd check/calibrate the thermometer before setting more eggs.

I checked the temp daily, I had an issue early on when I first began hatching, and I've promised myself I'm not going to let temperature be the reason chicks die again. The only time temperature was an issue was during the blackout, but it was a short one. So I'm pretty sure that the temperature wasn't the problem, but thank you for your input, I need any advice I can get, I'll put another thermometer in, and in the future as well. I'm really hoping I get another surviver.

 

[ChickaGalaxy]

If you have any advice for right now, I could really use it.

 

[sourland]

I understand that you checked the temperature, but did you check to assure that the thermometer was accurate?

 

[ChickaGalaxy]

Yes, I always let it run for about 24 hour before starting eggs, and check the temp with other thermometers during that time to make ture it's reading the right temp.

 

[Slothinc]

I hope you get another survivor! I personally would probably be trying to help them a little bit. Are the veins you saw when candling really thick? Or are they thin and spidery?

 

[ChickaGalaxy]

They're pretty thick, I'm hoping they go down soon so I can help the chick.

 

[sdm111]

Humidity could have been too high during day 1 till lockdown. Chicks grew too big to pip and zip shell

 

[Slothinc]

Also is there any chance that the day they started incubating was recorded wrong? I can’t believe some of them have made it 26 days!