I had 8 lohman chicken eggs in a brinsea mini eco manual. Only one chick made it to lockdown & then died because it began to zip & then turned around in the egg & inhaled fluid which was heartbreaking because I didn't help it when it stopped cheeping because I didn't want to interfere incase it was fine. By the time I realized, it had stopped moving & when I opened the egg I found it was perfectly ready to come out & would have been fine if I'd just pulled its head out from where it had wedged itself.
When I opened the other eggs I found they didn't seem to have even developed. The yolk was mixed in with the whites it seemed & rotting. The eggs were posted, but I let them set when they arrived. All I can think of is maybe bacteria had spread in the incubator from 2 of the eggs which had arrived a week earlier than the others & were survivors from a smashing in the post. Both eggs had smashed egg on them when they arrived, but I incubated them anyway in the hope that the protein layering would protect them from contamination.
Either that or it was poor fertility :/ Any ideas?
I really don't want a repeat of that hatch if it can be avoided...
When I opened the other eggs I found they didn't seem to have even developed. The yolk was mixed in with the whites it seemed & rotting. The eggs were posted, but I let them set when they arrived. All I can think of is maybe bacteria had spread in the incubator from 2 of the eggs which had arrived a week earlier than the others & were survivors from a smashing in the post. Both eggs had smashed egg on them when they arrived, but I incubated them anyway in the hope that the protein layering would protect them from contamination.
Either that or it was poor fertility :/ Any ideas?
I really don't want a repeat of that hatch if it can be avoided...
I've done 
they were dark. I’m having better luck now 
