Unhatched eggs

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I have an incubator and recently put in 16 fertilised eggs. At 21 days one chick hatched successfully. At 22 days another hatched but died and no others hatched. When we checked the eggs there were 9 fully formed chicks, fully feathered none of which had managed to hatch. Do you have any ideas what might have gone wrong? None of the eggs had pipped.
Any advice appreciated!
Thanks
Kate
 
I agree with Ros. What humidity did you run the incubator at ?
 
I just made sure the little water pots were kept topped up. There was condensation on the inside - never had a problem with that before. If its too humid can't they hatch out properly? I thought it was if it wasn't humid enough.
Could it be that I moved the incubator on about day 19? It was plugged in throughout though.
I'm really reluctant to try to hatch more in case the same thing happens again.
Thanks for the advice.
 
Where they eggs from your hens, or eggs that you bought?
I think you should try to hatch more, follow the incubator guidelines closely and put it on the right humidity. Even if you doubt the result, have faith, try again, because
You will never know
Unless you give it a go!!! :D :D
 
This dead in shell business is doing my head in , had my R-Com Pro set at 40% for the first 25 days , 65% for the last three days ...7 out of 7 call duck eggs fully formed and dead , there just seems to be no logic or pattern to it.
 
Hi, don't feel bad about your hatch, do try again. For many of us it's a trial and error my first hatch also didn't turn out great. As for the humidity many people will agree with me here. For the first 18 days run it dry (no water) then on day 18 take humidity up to about 60/65% or bump humidity up when first chicks pip. I have heard an awful lot of people go by this method and it does work well. Sounds like everything else was right due to having fully formed chicks. Don't know if moving incy would cause problems but I would say it's best to not move it at all thus eliminating that as a possible problem. Good luck
 
I have had similar problems ( as have a few other people living"up here") I have had the problem only when using some of my small incys (24 and50 eggs) but not with the large ones. Up here as there is already far too much humidity in the air I run incys dry until the first egg pips, then only put humidity up to 50%. It shouldn't happen, but it does, that small incys are affected by ambient humidity (73%) here for the last week :shock: At the moment I'm only using little incys and I'm not adding any water at all at any time of hatching- and the DIS has stopped happening as it has with others that live in this godforsaken wetlands that is Scotland this summer :-)06
 
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