Can anyone please tell me a thread or a site that I might find out the reasons and or causes why fully developed chicks dont hatch....I set 12 eggs on the first day of Sept. every thing was going great candled at 7,14 days and on the 14th day took out 4 clear eggs pitched them the rest were doing great..humidity and temps great...took out turner 18th day...raised humidity to 65 did not (really did not) open bator again untill first 2 chicks hatched and dried then quickly removed and into brooder..watched and waited for 1,2,3,4 more days which would have made it a total of 25 days and nothing not another pipe, noise or movement so I reached in and grabbed 1 egg and candled it looked good but no movement..finally I gave up on day 28 and cracked open one of the eggs my heart was pounding that it would be alive and I just killed it...but it was dead fully formed but dead it was moist but not a lot of fluid even looked like it had absorbed most of the yolk..and I did another and the same and another a total of 6 more eggs that were fully formed but dead in the shell...I was sick..the other 4 did not fully develop .
I just dont want to make the same mistakes if thats what happened.
I did wait to remove the chicks that hatched and dried till the temp and humidity were a little higher so I wouldnt make it drop too much I think it was like 101 and 68 but it never went over that the entire incubation time.
Thank you
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I just dont want to make the same mistakes if thats what happened.
I did wait to remove the chicks that hatched and dried till the temp and humidity were a little higher so I wouldnt make it drop too much I think it was like 101 and 68 but it never went over that the entire incubation time.
Thank you
I can always count on my BYC buddies to help this ole dummy out.