Incubation question... had a guinea egg malfunction?!

[PeepsCA]

I can usually see internal pipping when I candle at this stage (when they are due to hatch). Internal pipping is when they've broken thru the membrane and the tip of their beak is inside the air cell, up against the inside of the shell (mostly you just see the shadow and shape), but if you rotate the egg slowly while candling you can usually see the keet wiggling a little inside if it is alive. Not always, but you may be able to see something that gives you some hope. I'd bump up the humidity a little more, closer to 80%... and give them a quick fine mist of water over the top before you lock back down after candling. If your temps dropped a few degrees it may have slowed the hatch... I wouldn't give up hope until around day 30...

 

[david's grammy]

Thank you, I will mist the eggs and bump the humidity more....I do hear one egg peeping , but it does not have a pip on it...never had had that before , so it has pipped the internal membrane, but will it died in the shell.
about how long before it should hatch
Thanks again : )

 

[PeepsCA]

It may not die in the shell... this is what, only day 27? That hatch is still within the norm time frame. Think POSITIVE, send those little keets positive thoughts, lol. I know it's hard, after waiting all these weeks for this day and then things seem to be going wrong... just hang in there.

Your lone keet may have been an early bird and the rest are on schedule... I get a few early keets from time to time (especially in my Hovabator 1588s), and I also get some slow pokes that follow (especially in my LG)... they pip internally, rest and absorb more yolk and then get back to work pipping/zipping, maybe taking another rest or 2... and it can take them a couple days to finally hatch.

If day 30 comes and goes with no pipping or hatching, and you no longer hear any peeping, then I'd probably completely give up on them at around day 32, candling one last time and maybe opening a few eggs (if you can deal with that) and see if the deaths were caused by the keets being shrink wrapped by the membrane getting too dry, or if the keets were too sticky and got stuck or smothered by the thick goo inside the membrane with them.

Do you remember any issues with the incubating like drastic, extended temp or humidity spikes or drops?