help me figure out what I'm doing wrong please

[AmyLynn2374]

I thought that overly high humidity caused chicks to grow larger. I've got to go do some reading now!!!

Then again it's been my understanding that the high humidity causing sticky chick was strictly a matter of the egg not loosing enough moisture, not about size. Another reasoning for dry sticky chick is too low humidity during hatch causeing the membranes/moisture to dry and become sticky during hatch. A couple references I totally disagreed with so I skipped over them. lol

 

[scflock]

Another reasoning for dry sticky chick is too low humidity during hatch causeing the membranes/moisture to dry and become sticky during hatch.

This was my original thought, but I didn't want to get smacked

 

[AmyLynn2374]

This was my original thought, but I didn't want to get smacked

lol you like it and you know it.

 

[scflock]

lol you like it and you know it.

To the moon!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

From my readings there are two types: a wet sticky chick which denotes high humidity during incubation resulting in not enough moisture escaping the egg and a dry sticky chick which is the result of too low humidity during hatch or a sudden drop of humidity during hatch which quickly dries the moisture causing the stickiness.

I didn't contribute it to the second one because usually (in my mind...yes, a scary place,) those are the ones that the membrane starts turning a yellowish brown and they need assistance to get unstuck just to finish and then you know that's what's going on.

 

[bobshammy]

They hatch out fine and don't look overly wet just normal wet and they just stay that way and when they are done hatching and I take them out they are dry but the down feels stiff and they still look wet. I am only hatching a few at a time so the not rubbing on each other theory might be the issue?

 

[scflock]

They hatch out fine and don't look overly wet just normal wet and they just stay that way and when they are done hatching and I take them out they are dry but the down feels stiff and they still look wet. I am only hatching a few at a time so the not rubbing on each other theory might be the issue?

I've never experienced sticky chick. I leave all of mine in the incubator until the hatch is done, so that could be why, but I'm still leaning towards humidity

 

[CajunPeeps]

I have been having many problems with sticky chicks expiring. Eggs filled with Amber goo and I am running dry. Humidity runs anywhere from 20-40%. Climate is humid here. Still having problems.

 

[scflock]

I have been having many problems with sticky chicks expiring. Eggs filled with Amber goo and I am running dry. Humidity runs anywhere from 20-40%. Climate is humid here. Still having problems.

I want so bad to say something intelligent, but I have no idea

 

[lazy gardener]

This was my original thought, but I didn't want to get smacked

lol you like it and you know it.

To the moon!

You two are incorrigible!

My last hatch had a lot of chicks that were positioned with beaks at air cell, never pipped, and they were plenty moist. Some of them were clearly malpositioned, and wouldn't have been able to get into a position to make a viable pip. In fact, the first pip was like that. Had it's beak between legs, pipped way below air cell. I tried to help that one, but, it never was able to absorb the blood vessels in the membrane, and died the next morning, after I'd made a decent sized opening for it. It later started "foaming". Then, there were some that did not pip, and had dry membrane. In all, I consider it to be a dismal hatch. Had to help about 3, those did well. Two were clearly sticky/dry. One of them was huge, and definitely malpositioned. Had the one die in the shell, 1 clear, and 9 well developed but never pipped out of a total of 30 eggs set. So, final count: 19 good viable chicks/30.