Help My Millie Fluers eggs are not coming to term.

[Mrs Stumpgrinder]

Please help.

I have a trio of Millie Fluer's and I'm trying to incubate the eggs with out any luck. I candle the eggs at day 7 and day 14 and things look good.

when I put them in lock down something must go wrong...

I get nothing to peep or hatch. I have great success with BR and Black sex links at around a 90% hatch rate.

what am I doing WRONG

Mrs Stumpgrinder...

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

What are your humidity readings?

 

[debilorrah]

The Millies are bantys right?? I am not sure is why I ask, and as I said in another post, my hunidity was at 70% for lockdown and the LF hatched just fine, but the bantys drown.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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Yes an no. Just like silkies they are banty sized but have no large chicken counterpart..... I think

 

[debilorrah]

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Yes an no. Just like silkies they are banty sized but have no large chicken counterpart..... I think

I pretty much consider myself breed stupid. I just know what happened with my bantys this last hatch. Lowering humidity for this hatch since they are mostly bantys....

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Deb, You may want to try a lower humidity the first 18 an keep the humidity you have been using the last 3 days.

 

[debilorrah]

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I have been doing a very low humidity for the first 18 - around 30%, sometimes a bit lower, sometimes a bit higher. I am sure it is the lockdown period. The eggs are well developed and moving til lockdown. It HAS to be the humidity, since the LF hatched fine.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Thats the thing about humidity..... It will make your brain hurt.

 

[Kung Foo Chicken]

Stumpgrinder...

Set them to 50-55% through the whole incubation. (my settings came from a broody hen)


When I first incubated them and started out with 30-40% and bumped up to high humidity (70% or so) later I ended up with mostly crisps
and the ones that survived that drowned with the high setting.

 

[debilorrah]

Aw geez I did it again. I hijacked. I apologize!!!!