PLEASE HELP, will wait for responses, need experienced advice asap

[minpinmama]

I've no idea, this incubator didn't have a way to monitor humidity and the 2nd one does and the temp and humidity guage is wrong,
We have a separate thermometer in that one. I think before I buy any future eggs maybe I need a more quality incubator, not sure am so new at this.
I don't know if the chick is dead but all day he has been opening and closing his beak (with no sounds at all) and now he isn't opening and closing it.
My husband thinks he still sees it moving.

 

[stephanie1992]

I've no idea, this incubator didn't have a way to monitor humidity and the 2nd one does and the temp and humidity guage is wrong,
We have a separate thermometer in that one. I think before I buy any future eggs maybe I need a more quality incubator, not sure am so new at this.
I don't know if the chick is dead but all day he has been opening and closing his beak (with no sounds at all) and now he isn't opening and closing it.
My husband thinks he still sees it moving.

u can keep using this bator. but i recomend u getting a digital Humidity and temp reader before putting anymore eggs in it. Good luck!!

 

[hallerlake]

Hatching is exhausting. They stop and rest during the process. Give it some more time. I had a little one last year that seemed really weak. I held it over me heart while I was on the computer and dropped water from my finger into it's beak one drop at a time. It did make it.

 

[minpinmama]

This one is gone, really gone, I feel bad. I've not incubated before but have seen chicks in incubators chirping away and
this little guy never chirped at all, he kept opening and closing his little beak all the time over almost 12 hrs.
Never a sound, kind of looked like a fish out of water.

I've got 40 BCM eggs and 9 Silver penciled Plymouth rocks in the other bator, it has a fan where the other doesn't yet, ordered one but it hasn't come in yet. More Light Sussex eggs to put in.
Will go buy a back-up meter for the bator cause the thermometer it comes with build on it says 7 to 8 degrees less than the thermometer that I have inside it.

Have a lot to learn, for all I know he may of not survived even is under a hen.
I've much to learn and a lot of reading to do. There seems to be so many factors playing a part in this incubating of eggs.