No embryos formed... On day 7 nothing in eggs!!

[MrOrpington16]

What happened... Waited till day 6 and there was nothing... One of them had a tiny clump of cells?... It is a brinsea mini and temp was about 101

 

[dretd]

How sad! I am so sorry!

I usually incubate at 99.5-100 for a forced air--does the mini have a fan?

A couple of things to consider:
-Were the eggs shipped or local? Shipping greatly decreases hatching rates.
-Did you candle before setting them to confirm that they didn't have hairline cracks or detatched air cells if they were shipped?
-How old were the eggs and how were they stored proir to setting?
-Where the eggs from a known source that had confirmed fertility? Maybe they were infertile to start with.
-Did you calibrate your thermometer that you are using for reference? Sometimes they are off. I had one that was mismarked, off by 4 degrees.

Did you do an egg-topsy on them and that is how you determined the growth. No blood rings? Where was the clump of cells you saw located?

 

[MrOrpington16]

eggs from my hen… not shipped… two thermometers, the one that came with it had an air bubble… so i used the other one… never over 101 degrees. stored them in egg cartons, big side up, pointed side down… no hair line cracks.. cells were in middle of yolk. No blood rings

 

[MrOrpington16]

is 101 enough to cook them.. brinesa does have a fan

 

[donrae]

How many hens and how many roosters? What breeds and ages?

 

[MrOrpington16]

I put two new eggs in as tests to see if the incubator temp is too hot

 

[MrOrpington16]

How many hens and how many roosters? What breeds and ages?

I got this silkie hens when they were already fertile… they were with a rooster when i bought them.. I thought I may take advantage of that… But I hess that that did not work out they both are about 8 months the rooster was3 years old

 

[MrOrpington16]

Do you think it was the heat??

 

[dretd]

I doubt that 101 would destroy all of them...that said I would tweak the setting down a degree.

I am still thinking fertility problems. Just because the boy was with the girl doesn't mean the eggs were fertile.

If you crack one of the eggs open (new ones that you think are fertile) do they look fertile? If you are not experienced with looking at the difference between a fertile and non-fertile egg, look on BYC and there are many pictures of the difference between the two.