Help please!! Day 23 chicken eggs. Temp was to low

[Quailen]

Late stage in development, when candling, you angle your light source on the fat/air pocket from side, turning your egg under light and you'll get shadows of the chick moving/breathing if they are still alive.

 

[henwiggy]

Don't give up hope though, seeing how your temp was set low..... give it more days. You can do a Google Image search on chicken egg candling development and see what 'Day' your eggs look to be at.

Late stage in development, when candling, you angle your light source on the fat/air pocket from side, turning your egg under light and you'll get shadows of the chick moving/breathing if they are still alive.

I candled one more, shining in from the side of the egg where the air cell meets the rest of the egg contents (that's what I understood to do from your instructions above) and there was definitely movement. So that's good. This is so nerve racking/stressful! Who would have thought!!

 

[Eggscaping]

I am SO SORRY! Our incubator is set at 37.5 degrees celsius and we have very good results from that. I am not sure what the calculation is to turn this into Farenheit, but I do know that 100 farenheit is boiling point for water, so I think you may have cooked them! They should be at marginally below blood temperature for humans, which is 37.6 degrees celsius. Humidity levels are also key. A commercial incubator will have a water bowl, which you top up during the incubation period and then double in the last two days before hatching as too little humidity makes the shells and membranes too hard to crack for the tiny beaks. You have to manage this all yourself if they are incubated. Normally a broody hen will provide the right temperature for the eggs and her body moisture provides humidity. She will also help the egg to hatch, by pecking at the shell from outside when she feels movement.
Don't crucify yourself with blame. Just follow the instructions on the incubator and try again!

I must disagree with what you wrote. 100 degrees Fahrenheit is not boiling point for water! Water boils at 212 Fahrenheit. Perhaps you were thinking of Celsius? One hundred degrees Fahrenheit is what our incubator was set on and all 8 eggs hatched. The OP did not cook them.

 

[henwiggy]

I've got one egg rocking!!!!! Stay tuned!

 

[NewBoots]

And veins still showing is fine, or can be. Sometimes the veins take a little more time to finish draining into the chick. Only thing is, if you have to "help" a chick get out, and you start seeing blood in those veins, back off and wait a few more hours.

 

[henwiggy]

And veins still showing is fine, or can be. Sometimes the veins take a little more time to finish draining into the chick. Only thing is, if you have to "help" a chick get out, and you start seeing blood in those veins, back off and wait a few more hours.

Awesome. Thank you for the info!!

 

[henwiggy]

Well folks, no more action. The rocking egg isn't rocking anymore. No pips and no cheeping. I'll leave them til tomorrow(day 25) but my hope is pretty well gone for this hatch.

 

[Quailen]

Did you raise humidity during the lockdown period to around 65% ? It is to help them hatch out.

 

[henwiggy]

Did you raise humidity during the lockdown period to around 65% ? It is to help them hatch out.

Yes I did

 

[NewBoots]

I am so sorry.