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Well it's day 22 and nothing yet. :( buuuuuut the one egg still seems like it might hatch, just a late bloomer.

I looked at the other 2 eggs (just candled them) and it looks like they died around a week and a half ago, just didn't really show anything when I looked at them. Then I noticed that around a week and a half ago there was a power outage in the middle of a snowy night. Not sure how long it lasted buuuuut I do know it was over an hour. The one egg that seems good was the one that was completely surrounded by eggs and insulation so it must have absorbed all the heat from the other eggs to survive.

Still wishing it luck! Hopefully it's just a late bloomer
 
andieschicks said:
Well it's day 22 and nothing yet. :( buuuuuut the one egg still seems like it might hatch, just a late bloomer.

I looked at the other 2 eggs (just candled them) and it looks like they died around a week and a half ago, just didn't really show anything when I looked at them. Then I noticed that around a week and a half ago there was a power outage in the middle of a snowy night. Not sure how long it lasted buuuuut I do know it was over an hour. The one egg that seems good was the one that was completely surrounded by eggs and insulation so it must have absorbed all the heat from the other eggs to survive.

Still wishing it luck! Hopefully it's just a late bloomer
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Try tapping and listen closely to see if you hear a chirp. In the wild, mother hens will peck at the eggs signal them to come out. I do this with all my eggs and it works!
 
NO sounds :( I thought I heard a click once but I think it was my wrist. I re-candled and the veins that were there 2 days ago are gone, should I still leave it another day or two or is it gone?
 
Don't give up hope yet give it until Tuesday then you'll have to toss it. I'm terribly sorry. I had chicks hatch on the 23rd day last march. I had went to get the eggs and throw them away and as I gathered them I seen that all of them had pipped! So I had to put them back but only 3 Survived and they are beautiful girls.
 
I wish I could. Unfortunately I'm hatching for my work and they want me to us our eggs. (I still might end up sneaking in a few outsiders tho because I'm pretty sure our roosters are PART of the problem.... so we'll see XD )

Alright, I'll leave them until Tuesday and then I'll pull all of them. :( I'm so sad
 
I ended up pulling tonight. It has been snowing a LOT and the temp in the incubator dropped way too low for too long. I think it got down to 80 for a few hours and I toiled for a WHILE trying to get the temp up, but it took too long.

I did an eggtopsy... the one egg DID pip internally but the super low humidity outside the incubator must have been too much and it shrink wrapped and suffocated. Looks like it happened in the middle of the night last night when I wasn't able to get to it since the air sack was a lot bigger today than it was yesterday and was bigger where the pip was :( The humidity inside the incubator was high so I know that wasn't it. The others seemed to have died from infections because of the odd buildup inside all of the eggs. I'm going to be super cleaning the incubator and rebuilding it.
 

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