Well.. I was encouraged to create this thread to see if maybe anyone knows why I seem to be having so many upside down chicks at hatch time. Here's the deal:
I would've never figured anything could happen here that doesn't happen regularly, but maybe I was wrong..
Out of EVERY hatch, thats 3 now I've had 1 chick pip on the bottom of the egg. The BOTTOM of the LARGE end... opposite of the hatching ones who pip on the TOP of the large end. My last incubation ended tonight with the only chick dying in the shell. I checked the bator took the egg out and found that it was stuck to the liner on my hardware cloth, it had pipped on the bottom.
I also lost another fully developed, yolk absorbed chick, but this one pipped normally on the top of the large end and just never zipped. I figured it was somewhat normal.. not to worry.. but now.. not so sure.
My eggs were all turned by hovabator turners... chickens upright, turkey in duck turners on their side and transferred to the hatcher and laid on their sides. For turkey, I even candled to make sure the air cell was upright when I did put him into the hatcher because I suspected something was happening with them being upside down.
Any ideas? Humidy & temp all within normal parameters and each and every chick was fully developed and had absorbed their yolk. For the turkey hatch there is nothing to compare it to until next week, when the rest of the turkeys are due...
I would've never figured anything could happen here that doesn't happen regularly, but maybe I was wrong..
Out of EVERY hatch, thats 3 now I've had 1 chick pip on the bottom of the egg. The BOTTOM of the LARGE end... opposite of the hatching ones who pip on the TOP of the large end. My last incubation ended tonight with the only chick dying in the shell. I checked the bator took the egg out and found that it was stuck to the liner on my hardware cloth, it had pipped on the bottom.
I also lost another fully developed, yolk absorbed chick, but this one pipped normally on the top of the large end and just never zipped. I figured it was somewhat normal.. not to worry.. but now.. not so sure.
My eggs were all turned by hovabator turners... chickens upright, turkey in duck turners on their side and transferred to the hatcher and laid on their sides. For turkey, I even candled to make sure the air cell was upright when I did put him into the hatcher because I suspected something was happening with them being upside down.
Any ideas? Humidy & temp all within normal parameters and each and every chick was fully developed and had absorbed their yolk. For the turkey hatch there is nothing to compare it to until next week, when the rest of the turkeys are due...
