Very discouraged

[waibel zoo]

I just finished up trying to hatch 14 eggs. 7 were not fertile and I tossed on day 7. By day 14 I had 5 still going. Monday should have been hatch day. Well I candled again, 2 more had blood rings. I opened and they seemed to have died around day 16 or so. 3 still looked good. One had visable movement last night. So today I started to pip them. 2 had quit some time ago. The one I saw moving was dead and fully formed, yolk absorbed, and had feces in the shell with it. What the heck? They were set in a cabinet incubator with countless others. The temp never strayed from 100 degrees and humidity held at 60%. I am so discouraged. I REALLY wanted these to hatch. Yes shipped eggs.

 

[HenPen]

Oh, I am so sorry,it is heartbreaking when a hatch goes bad...

 

[shortcake1806]

It's always the ones you really want to hatch. {{Hugs}} It may not have been anything you did. Sometimes things just happen, escpecially with shipped eggs.

 

[ClairedeLune]

I am so sad for you, it must be heartbreaking to lose all of them.

What breed were they?

 

[waibel zoo]

Frizzled bantam polish. Incredibly hard to come by.

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Maybe your humidity was too high. In my cabinet incubator, the temp is preset at 99.5 but I don't let the humidity get over 45% until the last 3 days. Then I up it to 65-70%. I am sorry for your loss

 

[keystonepaul]

I would think if they don't develop at all you could put some of the cause on shipped eggs, but once they start to develop I would think that they having been shipped becomes a moot point and look to other causes for the eggs that quit during development. Keystonepaul

 

[Mom2Cool]

I'm so sorry to hear of your loss & I agree with whomever said it's always the hatches we really want &/or are really excited about that go off some how....