I got six eggs off eBay to hatch and I only had two chicks hatch and one of those has a deformed beak, which it can’t open and therefore can’t feed. I made my incubator but I was meticulous with the whole process and I tested its performance prior to any eggs going in but this was the results:
Egg 1 - perfectly healthy chick hatched day 21
Egg 2 - pipped day 21 but hatched day 22 and can’t open beak
Egg 3 - died in shell, checked at day 24 and it was formed but just didn’t make it to the air sack
Egg 4 - died in shell, checked at day 24 and it was formed but had bloody in the sack with chick
Egg 5 - stopped developing at day 4/5
Egg 6 - not fertilised
It was manual turning and I was turning the eggs 5times a day. Obviously the incubator dropped temp/humidity every time I turned the eggs but it was very efficient and generally went back up to temp and humidity in less then one minute. It ran at 57% humidity up to day 18 and then humidity was 67% for the last few days/week.
what did I do wrong?
Egg 1 - perfectly healthy chick hatched day 21
Egg 2 - pipped day 21 but hatched day 22 and can’t open beak
Egg 3 - died in shell, checked at day 24 and it was formed but just didn’t make it to the air sack
Egg 4 - died in shell, checked at day 24 and it was formed but had bloody in the sack with chick
Egg 5 - stopped developing at day 4/5
Egg 6 - not fertilised
It was manual turning and I was turning the eggs 5times a day. Obviously the incubator dropped temp/humidity every time I turned the eggs but it was very efficient and generally went back up to temp and humidity in less then one minute. It ran at 57% humidity up to day 18 and then humidity was 67% for the last few days/week.
what did I do wrong?