So what is the deal???

[MissPrissy]

If chicks are hatching early then your temps are off. You are getting birth defects from the temps hurrying along their development.

Get a new thermometer - a good model, not a cheap one. Regulate your temps in the bator over a periord of several days to a week before adding any more eggs.

You want eggs to hatch on day 21 - any sooner and you have problems like what you are seeing now.

 

[speckledhen]

Honestly, it seems to me that shaken up shipped eggs just wont develop to hatch time. I doubt it will result in deformed chicks since the blood vessel network hasnt even started to form yet. Has to be something else, IMO. However, whatever the cause, it's disheartening, to say the least.

 

[FLOWERPOT]

Troubleshooting: General Problems
Sign: Eggs candle clear; broken out eggs show small white-dot germinal disc; no blood. Infertile. Causes:

Immature males. Males may need to be photostimulated 2 weeks earlier than females.


I just read this on that informative site
What does this mean??? Show the males some Hen porn?

 

[WRBH]

And pray tell, where do I put the thermometer, up My hens rear,lol ??
The extra eggs I couldn't fit under my two hens, are in an incubator and doing fine, and so far are not hatching out yet. It's one of my two hens setting, that had a chick today, at 19 days, and her second egg is now pipping tonight. She's in the hen house, which is the only factor I can figure, maybe she got hotter in there, then the other hen that is on eggs that aren't pipping out yet either.

 

[WRBH]

P.S. Closer inspection it is also missing it's left eye, and part of it's skull, so head is soft, don't worry I didn't push down at all. No way to explain how heavy my heart feels right now, the poor thing.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

It is likely just a genetic defect. They are actually quite common in chickens.

 

[Promiselandfarm]

Wbrh are those eggs shipped in eggs having problems?? All my homegrown eggs are fine and dandy but the shipped in eggs are the ones having issues.
How in the world do you adjust humidity and temps with a hen sitting???

 

[WRBH]

Yep, the 4 I hatched that were my own eggs are fine, it's one that I bought online from Ebay that has defects. And as far as I know you can't do much about humidity and temp with a hen, if there is a way would love to know. And not being sarcastic about that either,lol