david's grammy :
It stoop peeping with out piping , so it has died....
I was only to put a small ...tiny hole in th air sack, so it would get more air, but when I went ina picked it up....no more peeping ...nothing ...shoot...I have the humididty at 90% and temp has always been steady 100 ..still air....I misted the eggs when I candled a few after the one died...I see no movement...
i sold 20 doz eggs at an auction , cause I had no room in my 4 incubators and gave 7 doz to a friend.....now...this , of my hens 5 actually are sitting on a community nest in their coop....I have about 150 adults, but once they start to free range, things like coons, snakes, etc. always get the eggs. I live way out in the country..no neighbor, so they free range pretty far away during the day... my dog, and I have in the pasted walked the place everyday...for miles it seems ...too find very few, so was really counting on these 41...and the 1 that did hatch now has spradle.leg ( spelled wrong)
....good grief....
Did you open the top of the egg at the air cell enough to see in, and confirm the keet is dead?
I asked once before... were there any instances where the temp spiked high or dropped low? Where are your incubators located, in the house, in the garage, in the barn? In my incubating experiences, LGs need to be set up in a room with a really stable temp, or the temps in the incubator fluctuate too much, usually getting too low.
I agree with Zaz about 90% humidity being too high... I find that between 75% and 80% works best for my hatches, but if I keep it at 65% I seem to get a lot of shrink wrapped keets. It does spike up a little after you mist the eggs, but should stabilize within an hour. You can open up the plugs to lower it back down to where you need it to be.
What kind of bedding is on the brooder floor that the lone keet is in?
