I'm about to pull the plug...

[chickychicka]

The water was warm (37.5C, same as the incubator temp was) and I had them in there for a little over a minute and no signs of life, not the slightest move / bop in the water at all.
I would not have worried much as I've read from chicken eggs hatch on day 27 and 28! But 3 pipped on day 19 and hatched on day 20, and on beginning of day 24 nothing had changed.
I did crack the eggs, and there was no movement or any sign of life of the chicks. 2 had started decomposing as the color of the fluid was murky and the smell..... not so great, but even those eggs floated just like the others, about 1/5-1/6 out of the water.... should they not have floated differently?)
I noticed at a later look at the dead chicks that actually 3 were smaller (one of those with the deformed beak), but all 4 were dead

 

[FeatheredFreind]

Sorry they didn't make it but at least you did all that you could for them. Are you thinking of setting egg again any time soon? I have a few due to hatch by saturday. One is a double yolker that I think I see 2 in. I've only seen movement out of the one. I would think that if one was dead, the other wont make it.

 

[chickychicka]

Good luck with the double yolker! It's like twins, not sure if one will make it if the other doesn't... my feelings say it's an iffy situation but who knows! Maybe one killed the other so it has a better chance of survival? Do you know if 2 yolk egg chicks have their own membranes?
I'd love to hear from your egg though and if it makes it or not!
As it's late in the season I probably won't hatch anymore, and if our chicks turn out to be at least 2 females then I won't need any more chickens anyway. But I am so glad I got to incubate eggs (with the borrowed incubator) and watch 3 chicks come out of their shells. Seen it on video before but seeing such a thing with your own eyes.... wow, it's just amazing! And my toddler got to see it too!
If I do it again though, I will try to use eggs from different chickens so they are not all related to each other. I know switching the roo out is the easiest way but I really like our roo.... he's nice and handsome too, so the next thing would be to incubate or brood out foreign eggs

 

[FeatheredFreind]

Well lockdown is this morning so I was up late last night and went ahead and candled. The embro in the double yolker died too as I was expecting. It was in there with the dead embro for a long time. I really didnt think it would of made it this long. I still have 2 blue eggs and one mystery egg left that are doing great. I love my incubater. It is a little giant that I got after chick season at Tractor Supply Company for half price. Got lucky only paid twenty something for it.