Hi all!
I am new to hatching and raising chickens. I recently purchased 10 American Bresse eggs from a local hatchery that works with local elementary schools on their embryo projects. I have a Janoel 12 incubator and I purchased some cheap thermometers to measure humidity. So this could have been a rookie mistake but I started looking for pipping on day 20. Today at 3pm will be the start of day 21 and so far I have 1 pip! I see no activity with the other 9 eggs but I did candle them before lockdown and they all looked good. I made sure the temp on Janoel was 38 degree celcius all throughout. Then today as I started to freak out because only 1 chick pipped, I noticed the temp on the cheap thermometer I have inside incubator said 95 degrees. Now of course I'm freaking out thinking I may have just killed all my eggs because I didn't run the temp test before placing eggs. I am not sure which temp is off, my incubator or my thermometer. I do have 1 chick that pipped overnight. Nothing from the other 9. Are my chicks ruined? If the temp was low and they do hatch, will they be deformed?
I am new to hatching and raising chickens. I recently purchased 10 American Bresse eggs from a local hatchery that works with local elementary schools on their embryo projects. I have a Janoel 12 incubator and I purchased some cheap thermometers to measure humidity. So this could have been a rookie mistake but I started looking for pipping on day 20. Today at 3pm will be the start of day 21 and so far I have 1 pip! I see no activity with the other 9 eggs but I did candle them before lockdown and they all looked good. I made sure the temp on Janoel was 38 degree celcius all throughout. Then today as I started to freak out because only 1 chick pipped, I noticed the temp on the cheap thermometer I have inside incubator said 95 degrees. Now of course I'm freaking out thinking I may have just killed all my eggs because I didn't run the temp test before placing eggs. I am not sure which temp is off, my incubator or my thermometer. I do have 1 chick that pipped overnight. Nothing from the other 9. Are my chicks ruined? If the temp was low and they do hatch, will they be deformed?