Help! My eggs are silent

Lois1990

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Please help, I have tried to hatch chicks 3 times now, unfortunatly the first 2 times the incubator stopped working! (this was a good shop bought incubator, not a homemade one where I could see myself doing something silly with it!) Today is day21 of my 3rd batch and there have been no problems with the incbator. My poor eggs have not made a shound or moved at all and im convinced there dead
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please can someone help? Thank you!
 
have you candled? how many do you have? what has been your temp and humidity? what kind of bator?
 
I candled them at day 18 before I stopped turning, I have 6 eggs and 4 I could see right through, one I couldn't see through at all and one was mainly dark except what I presumed to be the air sack. The temp has stayed at 100 degrees normally but I just looked at the themometer which records highest and lowest and the lowest recorded temp since incubation is 80 which I assume was when I had to move the incubator so will only have been for a few mins, the highest recorded temp is 100. I don't have anything to measure the humidity as I don't know this was needed till I came on this forum
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The incubator is a Corti 25 Full Auto...
 
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Lois did you check the actual temperature in the bator aka calibrate the digital against a real thermometer at any point? Is that incubator with or without a fan?

The entirely dark egg is the one most likely to hatch. See through eggs didn't go or stopped early.

To check your actual bator temps you - use play dough or silly putty or that flour dough you make for kids, make a ball egg sized and wrap it in plastic so it doesn't dry, set it in the incubator for 3-4 hours. Then insert a medical thermometer into the dough and check the temp. That is YOUR accurate temperature maintained by your incubator. Compare that to your digital thermometer or the incubator's readings whichever you have. Write the difference on the inaccurate thermometer like +.5 or - one... so you remember to add or subtract to get actual.

If your incubator is still air and you ran it at 100 degrees it ran too cool. Temps for still air should run 101-102.

You also need to change the batteries for the thermometer every hatch. Bad batteries = bad readings.

Humidity we're going to ignore for now, I dry hatch, that's not a problem here.

Candle the egg again. First the air cell end and look for moving shadows in the air cell...

Then candle the other end - if there's a clearish yolk area it's not ready to hatch. Watch that area for along while sometimes you can see movement there. That area usually goes completely black once the yolk is totally absorbed...

If no movement - go up to the Read ME ON HATCHING thread, and find the thread on Helping a chick out, follow the instructions to take a peek inside.

I hope there's still hope. Good luck. And whatever happens - read all the links in the huge read me on hatching file for future hatches and you'll get there...
 
My incubator is not a digital themometer and is set into the the inside of the bator, is has no numbers on it either, just lines with a big one in the middle, this, according to the makers is the correct temp, as it doesn't have readings I also have a max/min non digital thermometer in the bator which is the temp I use as I find it more accurate. My bator has a fan. I will try candling them again.... and maybe help them into the world. Thank you for your help
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