Problems hatching serama eggs

[Buck Creek Chickens]

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remember, this is winter where serama come from not summer its a hemisphere thing, up to this point my hatches have been great but, I do not help the chick, my orginal stock came from someone who helped alot and every hatch has been getting better, the first year out of 40 eggs got 2 to hatch

 

[Chickenaddict]

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remember, this is winter where serama come from not summer its a hemisphere thing, up to this point my hatches have been great but, I do not help the chick, my orginal stock came from someone who helped alot and every hatch has been getting better, the first year out of 40 eggs got 2 to hatch

True I hadn't thought about that at all! Hmm maybe thats why I am not the only one having trouble right now. 2 hatched out of 40 eggs?!?!?! OUCH! The only time I have had to help chicks is when I use the incubator, I just cant get that humidity to stay consistant, its either tooo high or too low. Under a broody they seem to do alot better and I dont have to worry about helping them out. If they go past the due date by a few days I crack them open and investigate in hopes of learning why they didn't make it. Ahhh this is soo frusterating, maybe this is the girls way of telling me they need a break, so be it....after this last attempt

lol