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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

I know they won't hatch if the humidity is off, so I was pretty careful 
to maintain misting and keep the lid on. When the shell broke, the 
chicks were alive, and might have survived had I dropped them somewhere 
other than the chicken run.

Karen L. Black wrote:
> Bev writes:
>
> > At last update, I had 21 living chicks and 3 eggs remaining in the
> Incubator...There had been no sign of
> hatching for any of the three eggs even though my candling record showed
> development.  The other two eggs were supposed to have hatched on Monday.
> So, I decided to toss the eggs.  Never one to waste anything, I made the
> decision to toss the eggs into the chicken coop run.  In they went, one,
> two, three...thud, thud, thud.  I sadly report that had I waited just
> one more day I would have had 3 additional chicks.
>
> For what it's worth, eggs do sometimes develop into chicks that don't hatch.
> Hatching is the chick's "final exam" -- if development has been right and on
> time, the chick will hatch and survive. 
>
> When I was incubating turkey eggs last summer, I broke out the non-hatchers
> to get an idea of where I was going wrong, and often they would be partially
> developed or otherwise dead in shell. The number of NG eggs went down as I
> became more diligent about the humidity and candling out the bad eggs at day
> 14.
>
> Karen Black
> Blodgett, OR
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