My hatch that barely hatched, I`m so miserable

[shylasgarden]

My hatch was due on the 19th but due to low temps, they are really staggerd. I did have four hatch on the 19th, four on the 20th, 1 on the 21st and one (sort of) today. When I got home from work today the one that was zipped this morning hadan`t moved, he was stuck! My humidity must have tanked early this morning. Well I helped him out of the egg figuring he would be the last, and, oh no, another is now pipping! How long can they keep hatching?
I right now have only 10 out of 41 eggs. I`m sooo miserable :-(

 

[old mill poultry]

I'm sorry. What kind of incubator did you use?

 

[shylasgarden]

I had them in a Little Giant still air, it did great the whole time, the mistake was my thermometer wasn`t accurate and it was only 97 degrees the whole time. I didn`t catch it untill day 18. I don`t know what happened, the hunidity kept constant till today, it wasn`t hardly even reading when I got home.

 

[gabrielle1976]

why are you misrable there still hatching you should be happy ,
buck up up the humidity check the temp and then relax you could have babies in the morning.

 

[tfpets]

If your temp holds steady, and was only low, you could have babies for days still! Low temps can drag a hatch out for up to 24/25 days....Low isnt as bad as high...too high is deadlier...I just killed 7 NN bantams with a 102.9 degree temp spike while I was at work, during pipping, on day 21 and I'm sick about it...the only near survivor died coming out of the shell. Yours still have a chance, let them be....keep them warm enough! But not too warm. Every little one is precious!!

Tina/tfpets

 

[chickadeeacres101]

At least you got some. Take extra good care of the ones you have!

 

[chickenlove2009]

I have tried with two hatches so far this spring. out of 31 eggs 0 lived 0 made it to 21 days (my fault entirely) so be happy that you got some.

give them a few more days, you should see more pipping and zipping.

 

[shylasgarden]

Oh, tfpets, I`m so sorry about your little ones! Thank you for all the encouragement, if nothing else I do have 10 and they are doing real well

 

[the_eagle69]

make sure your water trays are full in the bottom and you may want to add some spounges also to get your humidity back up and keep it up.