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Had one out of seven olive eggers that didn't hatch.. I opened it up and I'm guessing it was malpositioned?? Its beak looked to have been in the correct position to have internally pipped, and I assume it did because the entire area that WAS air cell was filled with baby. Its neck/shoulders were squished up into the fat end of the egg.
 
carcar80 said:
Had one out of seven olive eggers that didn't hatch.. I opened it up and I'm guessing it was malpositioned?? Its beak looked to have been in the correct position to have internally pipped, and I assume it did because the entire area that WAS air cell was filled with baby. Its neck/shoulders were squished up into the fat end of the egg.
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so did u save it?

I have a brinsea Octogon 20 eco bator and I'm having a really hard time getting the humidity set right, it is either way to high or around 40, I have cut sponges in the water wells and a damp rag across the bottom any other ideas? I know temp is most important at this stage but when lock down gets here we maybe in trouble, I have not had this problem before with this bator.
 
katsdar said:
so did u save it?

I have a brinsea Octogon 20 eco bator and I'm having a really hard time getting the humidity set right, it is either way to high or around 40, I have cut sponges in the water wells and a damp rag across the bottom any other ideas? I know temp is most important at this stage but when lock down gets here we maybe in trouble, I have not had this problem before with this bator.
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I bought some of those cute little plastic baby foods. You know the little rectangular ones. I fed the food to the chickens and then washed them out. Cut different size holes in the tops. I use those for my incubator humidity. If one is enough, that is all I use. If I need two, I use two. I don't ever use the water wells with my incubator. Not as much control with the wells.
 
katsdar said:
so did u save it?

I have a brinsea Octogon 20 eco bator and I'm having a really hard time getting the humidity set right, it is either way to high or around 40, I have cut sponges in the water wells and a damp rag across the bottom any other ideas?  I know temp is most important at this stage but when lock down gets here we maybe in trouble, I have not had this problem before with this bator. 
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Oh, no. I knew it had passed otherwise I'd not have opened the egg. It seems the way it was, it wouldn't have been able to breathe once it pierced the membrane. Its beak wasn't up as far as it should've been- at least I don't think.
 
Seems the more you hatch the more you learn as in where they are supposed to be, I candled my eggs again and I have one light green egg that is very dark, I couldn't see any veins, but I have another light green egg that I can see in ok, so do you think the dark one is dead? I guess when I go into lock down and I candle again I will be able to tell. What do you think?
 
@katsdar when is your hatch date? I can't remember when you said you set them. I just set mine yesterday and just figured if I didn't wait too late that my hatch date should be Friday the 13th. Also how many did you set? I set 33, 12 are from Flower, 4 are Turkens and 17 are from my hens.

@Flowerbh are Turkens and Naked Necks the same? I tried looking up Turkens and it comes up Naked Necks on google.

Y'all were talking about how to determine if you have rooster chicks, well one thing my DH and I have noticed is that the chicks that sing like song birds tend to be roosters.
 

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