Egg glop... snot.. sticky mess!

This is the first year I've done a dry hatch and I have a phenomena that is baffling me and killing chicks. Some people have seen this before, but no one has been able to tell me WHAT and WHY and HOW to fix it. In my case, this is killing chicks in the egg. It's different from shrinkwrapping, where that membrane gets hard on the chick. This... snotty gelatinous stuff hardens in the air, capturing and freezing chicks inside the egg until they just die. If an egg pips and is dry around the beak, I've been pulling them in order to get the glob of goop out and have a bloody chick in the bator because he wasn't ready to be out. Does anyone know the what why and how on this?

Thanks.

I don't know what that stuff is, but I wonder too. I have never done a dry hatch, but have noticed that very often my last few hatchers have this stuff. I haven't noticed it affecting their hatching progress. I just think kits gross and weird.

Oh it's just awful! I have found when the chicks pip, if they have this stuff in the egg, it solidifies and holds them so they can't move to zip. The ones who have zipped the eggs have not had this gloopy stuff. I pulled another one this morning, had to wash him with dawn soap because he was rock hard and screeeeeaming, stuck in the egg shape

Oh sweetened that is very disheartening....I searched and sent you a link that might explain why?
Best you can do now is bathe the sticky ones if they get out.
I have sometimes had chicks with some sticky down and washed them off so they fluffed up better
Did you have good s ventilation?
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My strombergs book says sticky chicks smeared with egg contents is from low average temp and high humidity.

Wouldn't low average temp make them hatch later? The humidity seems valid to me, but it was at 20% during incubation. I think, like your link said, it's maybe an airflow issue?

Ugh! So frustrated. There's a few that have hatched with absolute ease and they have NOT had this, and they are in the same incubator in the same conditions.

I have no good suggestions, or thoughts.... but I wanted to ask-- is it the same hen or hens that have these eggs or is it completely random and across the board?

could it have to do with the feed maybe? just thinking out loud here!!! you know the eggs you crack and they seem to have an exceptionally sticky egg white? not just a normal one, but the extra gooey kind. maybe its that, but in the process of incubation it has turned colour? its it the chick not taking up enough of the yolk as its feed during the incubation, and its just going gross near the end? I think not, but maybe the white in the first one... I just wonder if it could be feed related. not in a bad way, but that particular hen is processing the feed diffferently in her system to create that condition?? eggs maybe too chilled during the collection period, not frozen but maybe really close to it? it is that time of year right, when things still get too damn cold in the night (well for me anyhow! ha)

that is weird. I'll watch for it here too, since I wanted to do more hatching this year.

Lanaire, that's something I never considered! The chick that hatched from a frozen egg (who, by the way, the chicks follow) didn't have this problem, but doesn't mean it isn't from being cold!

I was just thinking, that when the eggs get too cold, it changes how the white is right? we dont mind, can usually eat them. but was thinking out loud if that change in white is what that gooey mess is after incubating?

just thoughts and ramblings. dont mind me, I'm just nuts