over 21 days hatching eggs and nothing... please help!!

[Barbedwirecat]

Also, never open the incubator during lockdown. Not even to remove a chick. You risk shrink wrapping any other chick that has pipped through the shell. Leave the chicks in there until you are FULLY sure that all the eggs that are going to hatch are and you are ready to toss out the duds. The only other time if if you feel a chick is in immidiate danger from something in the incubator. But you risk the rest of the hatch if you do. I feel like that may be what happened to the other egg you had hatching.

I'm duct taping mine closed at lock down.

There's always the next hatch

I was much like you and didn't know much about it until I can on here and did some research and asked some questions!!! I found a great seller of JUST what I wanted on here too. Everyone is super great here. Never be afraid to ask anything.

 

[TinyBirds]

It is shipped eggs that was the problem. 50% is normal only if the eggs arrived without the air-cell swirling upon arrival. I usually candle once I receive the eggs, and if the air cells look awful, I don't expect more than 0-10% hatch at most. I get 100% on local eggs and eggs from my own chickens, so it's not your fault at all. After 2 yrs experience, I advise against bothering with shipped eggs. Every once in awhile I got lucky (great hatch if the eggs arrived with intact air cells), but probably 80% of the time (after trying shipped eggs at least 40 different times - some very expensive ones included), I got 0-10%. It probably also depends on how close you are to the main city post office. With places out of town like we are, the eggs have to go further by truck and get jostled and handled more. I seriously regret all that money I spent on shipped eggs. Even though I could sell eggs from our various breeds, I don't do it because I feel bad shipping eggs to people and having them experience what I went through. It's much easier to find a place that sells live chicks like FancyChick (not sure of the name but something like that) or other people that ship chicks. That is much more cost effective than gambling on shipped eggs long-term.

 

[CrestedGirl]

Im so sorry,

 

[cmom]

So Sorry...