what exactly happened?

[bobzant]

I had 6 eggs in the bator. I tossed two because they were clear. I was dumb and opened one early cuz I thought it was dead. One hatched. And the other two were fully formed but dead in the shell, when I poked a hole to look in they looked shrinkwrapped but neither had pipped. What happened?

 

[Impress]

Sounds like low humidity, dried out to where they couldn't break out of the membrane or shells.

 

[bobzant]

Humidity was 65 is that high enough?

 

[Impress]

Weird it should have been. Was it that high during the whole lockdown process? Did you leave the incubator shut as much as possible?

 

[bobzant]

I opened it once to get the chick out and once to candle the late eggs, which was when I found out that they'd died.

 

[yinepu]

did you calibrate your hygrometer before this hatch?

 

[Gypsy07]

I imagine they weren't shrinkwrapped, they just looked that way. Pronbably just fully formed but dead. Looking at them through the unburst membrane I imagine you could quite easily assume they were shrinkwrapped when they actually weren't...