Newbie needs help

[Pamela Haynes]

Hi I am new to raising chickens and incubating. I have a pair of ayam cemini chickens and I tried to incubate eggs. I started my eggs in a hova bator, and then put them in lock down in a farm innovators forced air incubator. I don't believe the meters are accurate. My eggs were a week overdue, and my husband threw them out. I went to look at them and they were fully formed with the sack all intact but they didn't pip. I had 5 more that I put under the mother as she started sitting on 2 eggs she laid a couple days after I collected them. Now I have 2 still in the incubator that have been in there almost 30 days. Should I throw them out? I don't know what I'm doing wrong, and need help! I have 6 bantam and 3 silkie eggs I want to hatch, but am scared I will kill them! What are the correct temperatures and humidity levels? How do I know which thermometer to go by, and my hygrometer doesn't seem to be accurate. PLEASE HELP ME!

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Welcome aboard to BYC family gr8 people tons of information, loads of fun, enjoy shake your tail feathers

 

[Pyxis]

! I breed ACs too Have for a little over four years now. They're lovely chickens.

At 30 days, I would think those eggs are no good. I would toss them. Perhaps open them up before you do to try to see what went wrong.

It's very possible that the thermometer and hygrometer that you have aren't correct, so you'll want to calibrate them to make sure.

Correct temperature depends on your incubator - is it still air or forced air (does it have a fan)? Humidity will depend on your area and climate. I personally use 30%. I would start at 30 or 40 percent, see how that's going, and adjust if you need to.

And here's an incubating guide for beginners that you can read through too

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-beginners-guide-to-incubation.73350/

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hi I am new to raising chickens and incubating. I have a pair of ayam cemini chickens and I tried to incubate eggs. I started my eggs in a hova bator, and then put them in lock down in a farm innovators forced air incubator. I don't believe the meters are accurate. My eggs were a week overdue, and my husband threw them out. I went to look at them and they were fully formed with the sack all intact but they didn't pip. I had 5 more that I put under the mother as she started sitting on 2 eggs she laid a couple days after I collected them. Now I have 2 still in the incubator that have been in there almost 30 days. Should I throw them out? I don't know what I'm doing wrong, and need help! I have 6 bantam and 3 silkie eggs I want to hatch, but am scared I will kill them! What are the correct temperatures and humidity levels? How do I know which thermometer to go by, and my hygrometer doesn't seem to be accurate. PLEASE HELP ME!

Welcome to Backyard Chickens you need hatch help there badly first where do you have the new eggs right now

 

[NoNameHomestead]

Welcome to BYC! There are a lot of friendly, helpful people here.

 

[bobbi-j]

Hi I am new to raising chickens and incubating. I have a pair of ayam cemini chickens and I tried to incubate eggs. I started my eggs in a hova bator, and then put them in lock down in a farm innovators forced air incubator. I don't believe the meters are accurate. My eggs were a week overdue, and my husband threw them out. I went to look at them and they were fully formed with the sack all intact but they didn't pip. I had 5 more that I put under the mother as she started sitting on 2 eggs she laid a couple days after I collected them. Now I have 2 still in the incubator that have been in there almost 30 days. Should I throw them out? I don't know what I'm doing wrong, and need help! I have 6 bantam and 3 silkie eggs I want to hatch, but am scared I will kill them! What are the correct temperatures and humidity levels? How do I know which thermometer to go by, and my hygrometer doesn't seem to be accurate. PLEASE HELP ME!

Hatching and raising chickens can have a pretty steep learning curve. Pyxis has already covered anything I was going to say, so I'll just add: Enjoy your birds, keep doing research trying to learn, and don't give up on trying to incubate your eggs. Do you have a plan for whatever males you hatch out?

 

[NoNameHomestead]

To add to her question out of my own curiosity. Could moving the eggs from one incubator to another have that sort of effect on the eggs?

 

[Pyxis]

To add to her question out of my own curiosity. Could moving the eggs from one incubator to another have that sort of effect on the eggs?

No, I regularly move my eggs from one incubator to the lockdown incubator. Lots of people do it; it's the best way to incubate eggs with different hatch dates at the same time

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Fully formed chicks in shell makes me think humidity was too high and never formed an air cell for them to breath in when preparing to pip shell. I say this as they were not shipped eggs and you say all five were fully formed with no external pips.

 

[sourland]

Welcome to BYC. Type 'calibration' in the search bar at the top of the page, and do an on site search. You need to get your incubator at the proper humidity and temperature, and to do that you need to determine the accuracy of your hygrometer and thermometer.