I should have posted earlier, but I didn't

[MamaBelle5]

We were hatching out some eggs that I bought from someone else. Most of them seemed to have developed well by lock down. I'd say 9 out of 12 were viable.

Only 2 hatched. I kept the incubator on, kept the humidity up but there wasn't so much as a pip from the other 7. I kept it on for 7 days after the hatch date, but they just never did anything.

The incubator did lose power about 3 times (accidental unplugging from the kids) very early on in the process, but they still developed as they should have so I don't imagine that's it. Any ideas what could have caused us to lose those 7 chicks?

We've had 2 successful previous hatchings so this was a bit of a surprise.

 

[nuthatched]

What type of incubator and is it calibrated?

 

[MamaBelle5]

What type of incubator and is it calibrated?

It's the nurture right 360. I checked the humidity and temperature separately from the reading on the monitor.

 

[nuthatched]

It's the nurture right 360. I checked the humidity and temperature separately from the reading on the monitor.

I'd candle, then slowly perform an eggtopsy if you can stomach it.