OMG(osh)! First Pip!!!

[turkey girl 0964]

I am doing a eggtopsy now.

 

[cmobley]

After it came did you calibrate it or just use it. If you didn't salt water test it it could be where your issue is it will give you a false reading.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

I just used it. =I probably should have calibrated it first. I calibrated 1 week ago before we put the eggs were in lockdown.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

One of the eggs looked like it was going to hatch but then it died.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

2 died early.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

It will be a MIRACLE if the other 2 hatch.

 

[cmobley]

No telling, my last set of chicken eggs I had 38 chirping rolling and cracking. 10 died in the shell fully formed no attempt to even pip inside membrane. I always set a full incubator. Even if I'm hatching ducks I fill in spaces with chicken eggs at day 7 of candling duck eggs so they all hatch at once.

 

[Lpskitfit]

I'm sorry for your loss. I had a mass mortality with my last clutch of ducks. They all fully developed, and then half never even pipped. It's painful but I hope those last two make it

 

[turkey girl 0964]

This is crazzzzyyyyy! The egg that had the pip might still be alive! Last night I put it on the incubator just to be sure and when I was checking on the egg it had cracked a bit more!!! I took a bit of the shell off and I saw a little beak!!! If it survives all of this it will be so awesome! He might be lonely because all of his siblings died.

 

[Lpskitfit]

I think I did something really wrongView attachment 2568414

When mine take too long, I start assisting. That can be dangerous too, though. It's a learning experience and I'm still very much a beginner myself, but I've found assisting to be what helps the most.