Unhatched Eggs On day 24--Any Recommendations?

[Bravo]

Question for you all. I have 3 unhatched eggs in the incubator that are on day 24. One I am 100% positive is still alive (clear veining and movement) the other 2 I'm iffy.

I'll let them take the time they need but I am really concerned that if they make it to the point they pip, are they going to be strong enough to hatch? Even after they hatch, are these going to be strong chicks?

I've never had a hatch last this long so I would be really interested in others experiences.

I'm running a Genesis 1588 and according to the Brinsea Spot Check has been holding steady at 100*. I just cant understand why only a few eggs would take this long when the rest of them all hatched on day 20.

Thanks for any help!

 

[Ban seabhag]

The latest I have had one hatch, and I don't have a lot of experience, is 23 days. If somebody is still moving leave the bator closed and keep the humidity up til it has a chance. I did read here that someone had an egg hatch on the 26th day so.... I don't know why they would take that much longer, the whole thing baffles me sometimes. ( it was a serama that took 23 days ? )

 

[Bravo]

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Thanks Ban Seabhang. I have no clue what is taking so long either. These are mutt eggs so who knows.

I candled tonight because I wanted to clean out the bator--its amazing how disgusting 17 chicks can make the bator over the span of 2 days--and low and behold there was movement in one of the eggs. It hasnt internally pipped but time will tell.

The humidity us up but the bacteria in that bator cant be good. I can only imagine what kind of colonies are developing from all of the chickie poo and hatched egg remnants.

I'm chompin at the bit to bleach that bator down!!

 

[irenew]

I had eggs that went over the date. It was a long story. TR
he hen got up and left the eggs after two weeks incubation and they were finished in a teperware on the heater. I think the heater went on and off too much and for too long(oil filled thermostat thingee)

two hatched nicely and three days went by.

Anyway my friend who had given me the eggs said "You're going to have to help them out, just slowly."


I managed to help out 5 chicks.

This was over several days.

I candled and could see they were still alive and in the air space. I carefully removed the shell bit by bit.

The last chick when helped out I didn't think would survive. This was Friday and the first two had come the previous Saturday and were so very big now and getting feathers. This last one-a girl just lay there getting weaker and weaker. I kept dipping its beak for waterwhen it caught on and drank and drank and almost seemed to fill up like a balloon, I think it was dehydrated from too long in the egg and trying to get out. Then she was up and away like the rest and is now the biggest of that hatching and a pullet too(OK so they were mixed breeds and probably came from bigger parents.

Of the eggs that didn't hatch, two were empty and I had'nt picked that up and one didn't survive being "rescued", two others were dead already.