Good evening! Today was day 12 for my clutch of 50 eggs in the incubator. I usually wait to candle and remove until then just to make sure I don’t throw any good eggs. But I was surprised to find NONE of these 50 eggs we’re still good! About half had veins, or looked to have had veins, but they weren’t good veins. They had all settled to the bottom, and sloshed around In egg, and were clearly bad/rotten. Why would they start to develop but die? And why did this happen to ALL of them?
We haven’t had any power outages, and this incubator has held 100 something eggs this year and hasn’t had any issues. The temp/humidity was always correct when I checked, every night I fed the chicks in the room. Besides Putting the eggs in, I only opened the incubator one time, on day 6, to put in the last egg of the season (I know, bad to place at different intervals but It was an egg from I hen I have no chicks from and really need, this egg is now in the other bator, I think it is still alive with a few veins starting, as I threw all the bad ones out and switched the incubator with issues off.)
Any ideas? This incubator was new this year, and hasn’t had problems with all the other eggs this year. Many of the eggs even has little black embryos starting to form, but all sunk and dead at the bottom of the egg. And they smelled rotten too!
We haven’t had any power outages, and this incubator has held 100 something eggs this year and hasn’t had any issues. The temp/humidity was always correct when I checked, every night I fed the chicks in the room. Besides Putting the eggs in, I only opened the incubator one time, on day 6, to put in the last egg of the season (I know, bad to place at different intervals but It was an egg from I hen I have no chicks from and really need, this egg is now in the other bator, I think it is still alive with a few veins starting, as I threw all the bad ones out and switched the incubator with issues off.)
Any ideas? This incubator was new this year, and hasn’t had problems with all the other eggs this year. Many of the eggs even has little black embryos starting to form, but all sunk and dead at the bottom of the egg. And they smelled rotten too!
