Need help diagnosing mass embryo death

[Cyprus]

I really don't believe that it's a temperature and humidity issue given that temp has been steady every single hatch, the whole hatch and that I didn't have any issues with humidity in all previous hatches.

 

[Knighstar679]

What do you feed?
Dangit, I wish I had saved old feed bags! I'm beginning to suspect that there may have been some federal change in laws regarding what goes into poultry feed, and that the change in formulas may be the cause.

I read somewhere that it's happened before. The government made it illegal to use animal protein in poultry feed after the Mad Cow Disease outbreak and right away farmers started to notice decreased hatch and growth rates.

Could you add in animal protein to their diets? Live crickets, cat food, night crawlers, specially if you think that might be a possible problem. Or I was reading about putting a low powered light close to the ground to attract bugs to you pen.

 

[Molpet]

I had turkey and chicken eggs in the incubator. At lockdown moved to broodies.
Turkeys hatched fine.
Chickens from one pen, only four hatched of ten, all fertile. One died a week later.
A different pen, six of eight hatched. 2 weren't fertile.
Shipped eggs were a bust. Only one of 23. Air cells were loose.

 

[Cyprus]

Could you add in animal protein to their diets? Live crickets, cat food, night crawlers, specially if you think that might be a possible problem. Or I was reading about putting a low powered light close to the ground to attract bugs to you pen.

I can try some cat food or go catch some of the thousand box elders we have and see if they want those.

 

[EggWalrus]

I can try some cat food or go catch some of the thousand box elders we have and see if they want those.

Certain times of the year you can't help but eat them bugs, if you don't have a face shield and you ride a bike. I don't think they will like them, just like love bugs they taste awful!

 

[HuffleClaw]

Certain times of the year you can't help but eat them bugs, if you don't have a face shield and you ride a bike. I don't think they will like them, just like love bugs they taste awful!

 

[Cyprus]

Just moved those last two to LD. And the now 19 other eggs that were staggered in that incubator.

Guess we'll have a research study going on, since half of those 19 eggs came from my other bantam pen from younger pullets. All fed the same thing.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Just moved those last two to LD. And the now 19 other eggs that were staggered in that incubator.

Guess we'll have a research study going on, since half of those 19 eggs came from my other bantam pen from younger pullets. All fed the same thing.

Serama babies??

 

[Cyprus]

Serama babies??

Yup. Well, sort of. Serama pullets covered by a very aggressive Japanese Bantam cockerel of the same color.

 

[EggWalrus]

Yup. Well, sort of. Serama pullets covered by a very aggressive Japanese Bantam cockerel of the same color.

I bet they'll be some pretty little birds!