Day 22. I think I see an internal pip

[blitzons]

Automatic turner. About 50% humidity. Eggs from a breeder. 90% eggs developed like they look ready to begin internal piping

 

[scflock]

Automatic turner. About 50% humidity. Eggs from a breeder. 90% eggs developed like they look ready to begin internal piping

Humidity is a little higher than I run, but not enough to cause a zero hatch. I just don't understand. Even in those LG death traps, a few manage to pip

 

[blitzons]

I can only assume the power outage had something to do with it. Maybe delayed hatching or some type of bacterial issue

50 was also a high estimate. Prob ranged from 39-45

 

[AmyLynn2374]

In a Brinsea? This rocks my faith in all that I believe in. Have you turned them? What was your humidity for the first 18 days? Was there water in one or two of the wells? Did you hard boil the eggs before you set them?
Seriously, I have never heard of a 0% hatch rate in a Brinsea. Now I'm curious to know what happened.
Are they your own eggs, or shipped? From a grocery store? Did you put them in the incubator pointy side down?
I'm not making fun, I seriously hope you will stick around and let us help you figure out what may have happened

I've seen a couple different people in the last couple weeks that have had trouble with their little brinseas. Shocking isn't it.

Automatic turner. About 50% humidity. Eggs from a breeder. 90% eggs developed like they look ready to begin internal piping

Humidity is a little higher than I run, but not enough to cause a zero hatch. I just don't understand. Even in those LG death traps, a few manage to pip

I agree 50% is high.

Even with power outtages, some people have gone a good 24 hours w/o electricity and still managed to get a few to hatch.

 

[scflock]

It's not The power outage, not for that brief amount of time. You can set the advance to intentionally cooldown for up to two hours per day. I could see it causing a delay, but not total destruction of the embryos.

 

[CascadiaRiver]

I've seen a couple different people in the last couple weeks that have had trouble with their little brinseas. Shocking isn't it.

I agree 50% is high.

Even with power outtages, some people have gone a good 24 hours w/o electricity and still managed to get a few to hatch.

50 is high???? We have had 99.5 % hatch rate with 65-80% humidity in the last few days and maybe week. We only lost 1 or 2 eggs because of cracking problems earlier on and a few death rings here and there, all of our chicks were fine but 1 that died for unknown reasons. We have had amazing quality chicks (besides the few lovable dorks) and no sprawled legs cross beaks, any deformities, mutations, anything. hmm, maybe our humidity detector runs at a different, uhh well like fahrenheit vs Celsius.

 

[scflock]

50 is high???? We have  had 99.5 % hatch rate with 65-80% humidity in the last few days and maybe week. We only lost 1 or 2 eggs because of cracking problems earlier on and a few death rings here and there, all of our chicks were fine but 1 that died for unknown reasons. We have had amazing quality chicks (besides the few lovable dorks) and no sprawled legs cross beaks, any deformities, mutations, anything. hmm, maybe our humidity detector runs at a different, uhh well like fahrenheit vs Celsius.

I think humidity is all relative to where you are and what kind of incubator you are using. Amy has great results dry hatching, I have my best results between 40 and 45%.

 

[CascadiaRiver]

I think humidity is all relative to where you are and what kind of incubator you are using. Amy has great results dry hatching, I have my best results between 40 and 45%.

We use a hova-bator, and it has a auto turner, West coast may have something to do with it, usually cold and rainy.

 

[scflock]

We use a hova-bator, and it has a auto turner, West coast may have something to do with it, usually cold and rainy.

You see people with successful hatches anywhere from 25-65%. I think that's why it's important for newbies to see many points of view. You find what works for you and go with it

 

[AmyLynn2374]

50 is high???? We have had 99.5 % hatch rate with 65-80% humidity in the last few days and maybe week. We only lost 1 or 2 eggs because of cracking problems earlier on and a few death rings here and there, all of our chicks were fine but 1 that died for unknown reasons. We have had amazing quality chicks (besides the few lovable dorks) and no sprawled legs cross beaks, any deformities, mutations, anything. hmm, maybe our humidity detector runs at a different, uhh well like fahrenheit vs Celsius.

Yes. In most cases with the styro bators, 50% (going by a checked and accurate hygrometer) is high. An arid or high elevation hatcher may have better luck with those numbers, but for the average hatcher it causes dead in shell or after pip chicks. The key is to -no matter what your humidity is- to check your air cells for growth. I guarentee, if you have an accurate hygrometer and you run 65-80% for the first 17 days in just about most of the US that isn't high elevations, your chicks will drown because at that high of humidity your eggs can not (unless they are the most porous eggs ever) loose enough moisture that the air cell will grow big enough.

I run a low humidity incubation days 1-17 and higher it to 75% at day 18. I have awesome hatches with no deformaties, no leg problems. I have never lost a pipper/zipper and have only had three chicks die after hatch and only one of those was unexplained a week later, the others one had digestive problems the last hatched way before it was ready with a ruptured yolk and an active egg to chick vascular system.

Most people (especial with styro bators) that have had awful hatches and have switched to a low humidity incubation (or as some like to say, "dry") have found that their hatches are much better and more consistant.