Trisseh
Duck-duck-chicken!
Well this was an abysmal hatch for me, but hey. You can’t win ‘em all.
I’ve been left with 2 live chicks out of 14 eggs total. The breakdown:
Icelandics:
7 eggs total
1 clear
2 quitters around day 13-ish
2 DIS just prior to lckdown
1 DIS, not pipped, feet over head and head back on day 21.
1 live, healthy chick (Kermit)
silkies:
7 eggs total. All fertile.
1 quitter d12
1 quitter d14
1 quitter d18, prior to lockdown
2 quit around lockdown; checked on d21. Lots of yolk left, d19-20?
1 DIS on d21, this one bothers me the most. I made safety holes in the 2 remaining eggs, watched egg movement. No pips, pulled eggs out to check. Peeled some shell back, movement inside from the chick but couldn’t see much else. No beak visible. Dead within an hour!
opened up the egg and I’m pretty sure it suffocated. Had it’s head tucked down on the right side of its body, under its wing but then somehow between its right leg and the shell. Couldn’t get it’s head up to pip and not enough room to pip out the side. 
Annnnnnd 1 live, very labour intensive chick that just hatched this morning. Silver partridge. Will add a pic once I get one.
About half of these eggs wound up malpositioned. Which throws me because they were on their sides throughout incubation, except for the Icelandic’s which were large end up for about 2 days in a carton with the incubator tipped for turning.

Icelandics:
7 eggs total
1 clear
2 quitters around day 13-ish
2 DIS just prior to lckdown
1 DIS, not pipped, feet over head and head back on day 21.
1 live, healthy chick (Kermit)
silkies:
7 eggs total. All fertile.
1 quitter d12
1 quitter d14
1 quitter d18, prior to lockdown
2 quit around lockdown; checked on d21. Lots of yolk left, d19-20?
1 DIS on d21, this one bothers me the most. I made safety holes in the 2 remaining eggs, watched egg movement. No pips, pulled eggs out to check. Peeled some shell back, movement inside from the chick but couldn’t see much else. No beak visible. Dead within an hour!


Annnnnnd 1 live, very labour intensive chick that just hatched this morning. Silver partridge. Will add a pic once I get one.

About half of these eggs wound up malpositioned. Which throws me because they were on their sides throughout incubation, except for the Icelandic’s which were large end up for about 2 days in a carton with the incubator tipped for turning.
