Unpatched eggs

Midlandchick

Chirping
Apr 11, 2019
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Near Charlotte NC
I had 19 eggs. Two hatched on Saturday (I am going to quickly take them out of the brooder this morning, Monday.) there was one other that pipped on Friday but hasn’t hatched. No others show signs of pipping. (Day 21 was Saturday)
We had two power outages while they were incubating. One for 20 minutes. One for two hours. I candled them on day 18 there were definitely full chicks in at least 10 of them.
is there any chance they hatch or should I count my blessings I got two and move on?
 
What days of incubation were the power outages on and for how long?

I am sorry that it did not go as well as planned. That is always so disappointing. If Day 21 was Saturday that would make today day 23. Pretty unlikely that they would hatch that late. At this point, it is probably best to take care of the two you have and try and troubleshoot what went wrong so you can have a better hatch next time.
 
What days of incubation were the power outages on and for how long?

I am sorry that it did not go as well as planned. That is always so disappointing. If Day 21 was Saturday that would make today day 23. Pretty unlikely that they would hatch that late. At this point, it is probably best to take care of the two you have and try and troubleshoot what went wrong so you can have a better hatch next time.
Thank you. The first outage was day 6 the second day 14.
I kind of figured I should just cut my losses but didn’t want to give up too soon if it was possible they still might hatch
 
If that was the cause of the death then the development of the chicks would have been stopped at that time. So they would be much smaller than fully developed chicks. After you remove the eggs you can find out how far along they were by opening them up and comparing them with pictures online.

If not and they are fully developed and did not hatch it is likely that you had a humidity problem.
 

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