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NTBugtraq said:
So my styro hatch resulted in ~60% live hatches...but since being put into the brooder, 8 have died. All failed to thrive. All had leg issues.

I hate young chicks, they are so uncaring. They sit on non-thriving chicks to get warmth...its a very pathetic site. Please appreciate my chicks are not my pets, they are for food or sale, so I live by the creed they thrive or they die. But it sure sucks to see so many die. Out of the 21 who hatched, I have 13 that are healthy...they still haven't figured out how to eat from a bowl yet (they are 4 days old), but at least they are drinking and very able to move about. Right now there are 4 who are simply lying on their sides, being flattened by everyone else...and slowly dieing. I know, I could do something with electrolytes, but honestly, these chicks won't open their mouth for me. I tried an egg yolk but all that seemed to do was actually seal their beaks closed...

All of these birds were intended to be meat, hens at 10 weeks, roos later...so their genetics doesn't matter...but all that have failed are also chicks that hatched on day 23...I ran this styro hatch as close to 100.5F as possible, low humidity but not below 25%, and it has sucked. No egg was older than 8 days when put into the bator, and all had been turned regularly before being set.

IMO, nobody should try a hatch in a stryo bator, it can't give you better than 50%. And seeing this chicks with all these leg/foot problems, ****. And fwiw, adding electrolytes to water only helps if they can stand and drink, and all that have died couldn't...they stood with their heads held up, never thinking to lower their beak into anything until they fell over, at which point their only goal was to stand again, not drink, or eat, or peck, or anything. This electrolyte idea may work for pets, but it doesn't work for chicks expected to work for themselves.

I didn't take pics of the foot/leg issues. I checked, its not anything that was pictured on BYC when you search for foot problems, or leg problems....but it did sound like what people say when they aren't thriving.

I so wish I was not inspired to keep the styro bator running. I wish, when I got my brinsea, people had been adamant that I move my styro eggs into it. Since I have not had a hatch in it, I am only presuming it will do so much better, but I know styro hatching sucks for me.
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Well that sucks. Hope your brinsea hatch works better. On the plus side if the brinsea gives similar results you will know that your issue is genetics.
 
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Hi, I was able to get 2 thermometers steady for two days. Put eggs in and now the one that came with incubator reads 100 and 2nd reads 106. What should I do? Still air incubator LG9300
 
desiree210 said:
Hi, I was able to get 2 thermometers steady for two days. Put eggs in and now the one that came with incubator reads 100 and 2nd reads 106. What should I do? Still air incubator LG9300
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Return the incubator and get an lg9200 or any other brand.
Seriously can you check the calibration on the 2nd thermometer. It's more likely to be right. I haven't heard of anyone being happy with the 9300
 
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My eggs in my incubator . I need to adjust it every time the room temp changes by more than 1 degree
 

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