Please me these are not all blood rings?

[sunnie7]

I dont think this hatch is going well at all.....I have A LOT of my eggs that look like this. They are on day 10. These were my eggs and some I swapped with a local girl. None shipped.

Should I be seeing movement at this stage? I’m not.

If these are blood rings what causes so many of them?

 

[Kiki]

Not looking good for day ten.


Are you sure your bator is not getting too hot?
Calibrated thermometers?

 

[-Clementine-]

Those are blood rings, and they are caused by the blood veins dissolving and the blood pooling around in the yolk. They happed after the embryo dies

 

[sunnie7]

Not looking good for day ten.


Are you sure your bator is not getting too hot?
Calibrated thermometers?

It’s a brand new Nature Right 360 that ive double checked with my calibrated thermometer also. My humidity is a bit all over the place but going from 30-45%

 

[sunnie7]

I MIGHT have 4 good eggs out of 25.....I’ve never been this disappointed with a hatch.

 

[Kiki]

It’s a brand new Nature Right 360 that ive double checked with my calibrated thermometer also. My humidity is a bit all over the place but going from 30-45%

Temp spikes are deadly...quickly.
Not so much humidity spikes. That humidity is good.

 

[Kiki]

I MIGHT have 4 good eggs out of 25.....I’ve never been this disappointed with a hatch.

Triple check your temperature.

 

[sunnie7]

Triple check your temperature.

I had the incubator set at 100....isn’t it 100 for guineas and 99.5 for chickens?! Just rechecked it and it’s reading 100.8 with my calibrated meat thermometer.

 

[R2elk]

I had the incubator set at 100....isn’t it 100 for guineas and 99.5 for chickens?! Just rechecked it and it’s reading 100.8 with my calibrated meat thermometer.

Use the same temperature for guinea eggs as with chicken eggs. If your incubator is a forced air incubator, 99.5°F is the correct setting. If your incubator is really running at 100.8°, the temperature did not kill the eggs. Temperature spikes could have killed the eggs. Or it could be related to the genetics or nutrition of the hens that laid the eggs.

 

[sunnie7]

Attempt #2 in the NR 360. Day 4.....are these normal or blood rings again? All different eggs.

@Kiki @R2elk