The temps in the bator had hot and cool spots. Found out it was because the edge of the bator was hanging off the dresser. So the top half of my eggs incubated at a higher temp and the lower half at a cooler temp. I dry hatched and when in lockdown had humidity at 65-70% when the one egg hatched, the the humidity shot up to almost 80% and I opened it to let a little humidity out. I had 7 eggs that were either chirping, tapping, or rocking at day 15. All of these were dead when I checked today. I haven't seen any movement from any of the other eggs except one. My one chick hatched at day 20, I pulled it out almost day 22 because it was wreaking havoc on the eggs. When I pulled it out I heard another egg chirp...it chirpped alot. After about 24 hours it slowed down and stopped. I decided to intervene and candled it, I could see the chick kind of gasping. I popped the air cell open and it looked very shrinkwrapped, it still had vessels so I wrapped it in warm paper towels and left it. It started to chirp again about 2 minutes later. I struggled and struggled and I finally helped today because it had been like that for almost 2 days. It bled a little and I stopped. I finally got most of the membrane off of his top half, he worked the rest of the way out. He's not doing well at all. Oh, and one time during the process the wells dried and humidity dropped to 50 overnight...other than that its been high...almost too high. So yeah, nothing from any of the eggs so I assumed they were dead and they were except that one. I think he's dead and the one I pulled out is gasping and laying on his side. I gave him water with polyvisol and he drank, but he's doing really poorly. NOTE TO SELF...NEVER INTERVENE AGAIN.
So what do you think happened to them? And my one chick that hatched fine, is small has long legs and is the cutest most energetic chick. Followed us all around the yard today...and will not stop chriping very loudly unless we hold him. I can't find any chicks in our area...poor guy.
