Here are the shipped eggs --
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/682925/shipping-disaster
Dry incubation in Hovabator still air with proven past results. Hatching done in still air Hovabator with humidity at 60-75% at lockdown.
Four eggs made it to lockdown. One pipped, zipped, and hatched. One pipped through a blood vessel and didn't make it. Two were fully formed but died -- one hadn't pipped internally, one hadn't.
Air cells of the latter two were big and not moist inside. No other obvious problems, though I didn't pull them out completely and see if there were physical defects of the chick itself.
Were the final two problems just from the shipping problem or natural selection??
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/682925/shipping-disaster
Dry incubation in Hovabator still air with proven past results. Hatching done in still air Hovabator with humidity at 60-75% at lockdown.
Four eggs made it to lockdown. One pipped, zipped, and hatched. One pipped through a blood vessel and didn't make it. Two were fully formed but died -- one hadn't pipped internally, one hadn't.
Air cells of the latter two were big and not moist inside. No other obvious problems, though I didn't pull them out completely and see if there were physical defects of the chick itself.
Were the final two problems just from the shipping problem or natural selection??
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