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jkelly5359 said:
Hi everyone! I NEED HELP!!! This is my first incubation attempt and it is NOT going well
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I started with 28 from our own chickens that refuse to go broody. On bad advice from a friend (who has her own chickens and loaned me the incubator so I assumed she knew what she was talking about) we placed ALL of the eggs pointed side UP... By the time I noticed something wasn't right and researched incubation and how to candle, it was too late! ONLY ONE EGG HAS SURVIVED! All of the others were lost by day 10-11 due to the positioning, my temp and humidity have been spot on and the bator has an auto turner. It is now day 24 for this one, lonely little egg. I have been candling it every morning to make sure there is still life and I can see the little guy moving! BUT, no pipping... not internal or external.. I really want this chick to make it!!! WHAT SHOULD I DO??????? I've read that some people make the first pip manually?? Should I try that? I'm so inexperienced that I'm afraid to take action... HELP!!
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Hi. It sounds like he may be at the wrong end of the egg! In that case many people do assist with the hatching! I haven't done that before so i can't give you advice how to do it but try this thread and they for sure can help. I think there is even info on their first post! Good luck
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...tychooks-and-many-many-more/530#post_17635295
 
I have 5 out of 12 eggs left. I just did eggtopsys on 4 of dead ones. I could only figure out what went wrong with one of them. Had an incomplete blood ring and looked like it had died eatly. The oldest one looked to have died on day 15 ish. Not sure fron what... the white was almost absorbed. So just another day or 2 i think. Fully fourmed. Just needed some more down. One looked to have died at day 8. One at day 10 and one on day 11 or 12. And the last on day 15.

There was no pressure or smell in any of the eggs indicating bacteria.

My assumption is that i had them in the fridge before the incubator, so maybe they can hatch from the fridge, but get a bad hatch rate? Maybe they can only grow so much in the shell before running into problems growing.
I have 1 refrigerated egg left alive. I havent had any unrefridgerated ones die yet. So that is my only assumption of what i could have done wrong. Next time i will store at room temp, and hopefully that will help.

It sucks i had so many die, but i still have 5 very healthy chicks fourming. One due on the 18th, one on the 21st. And 3 on the 24th. Hopefully they make it!
 
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chelseajgoss said:
I have 5 out of 12 eggs left. I just did eggtopsys on 4 of dead ones. I could only figure out what went wrong with one of them. Had an incomplete blood ring and looked like it had died eatly. The oldest one looked to have died on day 15 ish. Not sure fron what... the white was almost absorbed. So just another day or 2 i think. Fully fourmed. Just needed some more down. One looked to have died at day 8. One at day 10 and one on day 11 or 12. And the last on day 15.

There was no pressure or smell in any of the eggs indicating bacteria.

My assumption is that i had them in the fridge before the incubator, so maybe they can hatch from the fridge, but get a bad hatch rate? Maybe they can only grow so much in the shell before running into problems growing.
I have 1 refrigerated egg left alive. I havent had any unrefridgerated ones die yet. So that is my only assumption of what i could have done wrong. Next time i will store at room temp, and hopefully that will help.

It sucks i had so many die, but i still have 5 very healthy chicks fourming. One due on the 18th, one on the 21st. And 3 on the 24th. Hopefully they make it!
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Hope they make it too. Mine has made a big hole now. Hopefully soon out should pop out!
 
chelseajgoss said:
I have 5 out of 12 eggs left. I just did eggtopsys on 4 of dead ones. I could only figure out what went wrong with one of them. Had an incomplete blood ring and looked like it had died eatly. The oldest one looked to have died on day 15 ish. Not sure fron what... the white was almost absorbed. So just another day or 2 i think. Fully fourmed. Just needed some more down. One looked to have died at day 8. One at day 10 and one on day 11 or 12. And the last on day 15.

There was no pressure or smell in any of the eggs indicating bacteria.

My assumption is that i had them in the fridge before the incubator, so maybe they can hatch from the fridge, but get a bad hatch rate? Maybe they can only grow so much in the shell before running into problems growing.
I have 1 refrigerated egg left alive. I havent had any unrefridgerated ones die yet. So that is my only assumption of what i could have done wrong. Next time i will store at room temp, and hopefully that will help.

It sucks i had so many die, but i still have 5 very healthy chicks fourming. One due on the 18th, one on the 21st. And 3 on the 24th. Hopefully they make it!
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I hope that some of those will hatch out for you.
 

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