humidity issues

[HEChicken]

Probably the chick is just resting. Make sure there is room in the brooder for them to get away from the heat source. What you should have, is one end that is heated, and one end that is not. The chicks will choose where to be most comfortable at any given moment, and as long as they can get away from the heat, they will do that rather than overheat. I don't measure the temperature in my brooder with a thermometer - I measure it by the chicks' behavior. When they are huddled together in a corner, they are cold. When they are spread out, panting and lethargic, they are too hot. When they are moving around comfortably, pecking at the feeder, getting a drink, taking a nap under the heat and then moving away from it for a little while, the temperature is just right.

 

[HenchantedAcres]

The brooder measures 5ft long and 3ft wide. I guess I will just have to watch him.
The eggs I am hatching I bought from ebay, so they were shipped from TN to FL. On day 18, I could see movement in all of the eggs. #4 is moving around, but #5 and #6 I haven't noticed anything. Shouldn't the rest of them pipped by now?

 

[HenchantedAcres]

Okay, so I went ahead and performed an eggtopsy of the last 2 eggs that didn't hatch because they were not chirping or moving. #5 obviously died before being formed all the way. And #6 almost looked like it was shrink wrapped. #6 looks like there was a small external pip, but not into the air cell. The membrane was totally intact. I was thinking that it would be that the humidity was too high because some of the chicks that hatched still had a little tale from the yolk sac attached to them that they pulled off when trying to get out of the egg. One chicks wing was stuck to the membrane when it hatched as well. I had the humidity between 60-65 during lock down, with spikes of 73 when a chick hatched. Just trying to figure out if it was too much humidity, or not enough.....