Sticky chicks after others hatched fine??

[Astar]

Majority of my eggs are hatched fine (several dozen), but twice now I’ve had sticky chicks after the first few are fine. It seems to be happening once there’s a lot of babies in the incubator. So is the humidity or temp getting too high with the extra bodies or a ventilation issue??

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Humidity is rising while they are drying.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Majority of my eggs are hatched fine (several dozen), but twice now I’ve had sticky chicks after the first few are fine. It seems to be happening once there’s a lot of babies in the incubator. So is the humidity or temp getting too high with the extra bodies or a ventilation issue??

Do you have a still air incubator? You could have a hot or cold spot. I find I get sticky chicks when I have temp issues.

 

[Astar]

Do you have a still air incubator? You could have a hot or cold spot. I find I get sticky chicks when I have temp issues.

No on the still air, I have high quality incubators.

 

[Astar]

Humidity is rising while they are drying.

So... try to ventilate some of that humidity out or actually lower my humidity setting? It’s digital and the reading doesn’t seem to be changing. And it happened in 2 different incubators.

 

[Redhead Rae]

No on the still air, I have high quality incubators.

Gotcha. I have a couple of homemade bators and a Brinsea Ovation 28 EX. I LOVE the Brinsea. I got much better hatch rates when I was using it for my starter incubator, but it is too small for all the eggs I want to stagger hatch. Of course, I would probably hatch more chicks even if I set fewer eggs if I started in the Brinsea. But I'm figuring out how to work my homemade incubators.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I have this happen... usually in my forced air bator. Got my best hatches in still air.

I feel like the reason this happens is because of differing egg shell quality... and I THINK the sticky chicks are starting with more fluid inside their hatching egg... maybe unabsorbed albumin... I have NOT selected for shell quality to be the same or at all yet.

Makes me crazy to get a chick with it's wing glued to it's head or shell glued to it's back... NEVER had that issue in my still air hatcher, almost EVERY hatch since using forced air though... and JUST like you NOT all of them. It has changed my "help no one hatch" policy, since I feel like they are fine but I did something.

 

[Redhead Rae]

I have this happen... usually in my forced air bator. Got my best hatches in still air.

I feel like the reason this happens is because of differing egg shell quality... and I THINK the sticky chicks are starting with more fluid inside their hatching egg... maybe unabsorbed albumin... I have NOT selected for shell quality to be the same or at all yet.

Makes me crazy to get a chick with it's wing glued to it's head or shell glued to it's back... NEVER had that issue in my still air hatcher, almost EVERY hatch since using forced air though... and JUST like you NOT all of them. It has changed my "help no one hatch" policy, since I feel like they are fine but I did something.

My policy has become if they pip, they get help.