Incubation Troubleshooting
A number of embryos dead from the sixth through the sixteenth days of incubation.
| Probable Cause | Suggested Corrective Measure |
| Incubator temperature much too high.
|
Check accuracy of thermometer. Operate incubator
at proper temperature.
|
| Infected embryos - either by infection from dams
or external microbial contamination
|
Provide adequate ventilation of the hatcher room
and proper openings of the hatcher ventilators.
|
| Lack of ventilation.
|
Provide adequate ventilation of the incubator room and proper openings of the incubator ventilators. |