Mythreal81
In the Brooder
- Mar 28, 2023
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Would love any tips. Our hatch rate seems fairly low and with both hatches we have lost a chick in the same manner. 1st time around 22 eggs, 3 non fertile, 7 hatched 1 died. Second hatch 22 eggs 6 not fertile or didn't candle well at end, 8 alive, 1 died, 3 eggs still possible. With the dead chicks their pip looked different. Just a hole without cracks going around. The first tried to hatch for 3 days and at the end got most of its body out and died. The second had the same shaped hole and the same smell. small amount of blood as well. Got its head out and died. Temp is 99.5. Humidity 50 until lockdown then 75-80, sometimes it drops to 68 before I get it up again. Is this operator error?
Have you checked/calibrated your temperature and humidity sensors?
