Hey everybody,
This year I decided to try my hand at incubating some of my blue and partridge cochin eggs. On May 8th I put in 9 eggs, 4 partridge and 5 blue. I had one of them hatch on the 30th but it didn't make it through the night. I had another one poke a hole through but it didn't hatch. Those were the only two that had any hatching action. Tonight I took the remaining eggs and opened them up to see what was going on. Four of them weren't developed. The other 4 were fully developed and in the right hatching positions. I put another 3 eggs in on May 15th, one of which I am positive is still alive in the egg. I thought that maybe my humidity had gotten too high at 74% and that it drowned all the chicks but the May 15th chick is still okay. I guess my question is am I overlooking something that might have happened during the incubation to cause all my May 8th chicks to die but not my chicks that were put in after them? Or was it just really bad hatching luck?
Thanks!
This year I decided to try my hand at incubating some of my blue and partridge cochin eggs. On May 8th I put in 9 eggs, 4 partridge and 5 blue. I had one of them hatch on the 30th but it didn't make it through the night. I had another one poke a hole through but it didn't hatch. Those were the only two that had any hatching action. Tonight I took the remaining eggs and opened them up to see what was going on. Four of them weren't developed. The other 4 were fully developed and in the right hatching positions. I put another 3 eggs in on May 15th, one of which I am positive is still alive in the egg. I thought that maybe my humidity had gotten too high at 74% and that it drowned all the chicks but the May 15th chick is still okay. I guess my question is am I overlooking something that might have happened during the incubation to cause all my May 8th chicks to die but not my chicks that were put in after them? Or was it just really bad hatching luck?
Thanks!
