royal palm incubation emergency

[bmatrow]

got an incubator this year to hatch my wife royal palm turkeys. Yesterday was day 28 and the first clutch of 5 all pipped throughout the day. Problem is some have been pipped for 24 hours now with no change.

Temp 100
Humidity. 72%

I really don't want to lose the chicks but they aren't really making any progress. I can't imagine what I've done wrong and i have about 12 more eggs with later hatch dates in different incubators. Should i try and help these? Mainly if i have to help these i need to figure out what's wrong so i can correct it on future hatches.

Any help very much appreciated.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

If your hygrometer is accurate your humidity it a bit high, but not alarmingly so. Sometimes it can take a while from the first pip to breakout. Give them some more time.

I've got fifty nine in the box set to hatch right now. One was pipped last night when I moved it into the hatching tray and was unchanged this morning when I got up. I won't begin to become concerned with that one until tonight. Be patient.

 

[judsenn]

Any news?

 

[bmatrow]

Well one died and we slowly helped the other 4 hatch. So we have 4 chicks on the ground now but we will see what we have in a couple of days. I usually dont like helping chicks hatch but they had been pipped for 36 hours with no progress. Thanks for the help all.

 

[bmatrow]

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Congratulations!

Sorry yours had such a difficult time. If you haven't calibrated your hygrometer it would be a good idea to do so then run your final three day humidity in the 60-65% range. The next hatch may have an easier time of it.

My early pipper that I mentioned above was the first one hatched when we got home yesterday. Even the one we accidentally dropped during the twenty fifth day candle hatched.

 

[judsenn]

YAY. How are they all doing?

 

[bmatrow]

The four have been sold and with some temp and humidity adjustments the second batch (a whole two eggs) hatched without help and doing great! We took the temp down to 98.9 and didnt touch humidity since it was at 60%. We were nervous and had a hard time not helping because we was afraid of a repeat performance of first hatch, but we resisted and they both were out with in 15 minutes of each other; the one had been pipped for 12 hours though. SO HAPPY next batch due around the 8th (4 eggs)

 

[judsenn]

what are you feeding them? I went to TSC and the higest protein food they had was for gaming feed at 26%. ANd yay for healthy babies.

 

[bmatrow]

We have to travel 30 minutes away to get gamebird starter/grower crumbles at 22% from orschlens. We put regular starter in with it for the smaller chicks (put with them to show them were the feed is) to eat because the "crumbles" are still a little large for smaller beaks. We give them that for 6-8 weeks then put on regular game bird feed with access to egg pellets and cracked corn and free range once we feel they are big enough to go outside.