Alright I have only been Incubating for a little over 40 yrs so I still know very little but it might be enough to give you some help in your problems I hope and if you are determined to open your incubator make sure there you haven't any wind blowing even a celling fan as this will give you...
Eggs put in incubator 13 March 2016 and now they are ready for the world
Ya no April fools juke here
Went in the room and I could hear some chirping so I checked the incubator
Alright Kayla, the first step is to recognize the problem and the second is to admit your problem to others and the third stem is to join a group of hatchaholic's but here there is really no recovery plan just fellow hatchaholic's dealing with their ism and showing off their latest hatch so...
Give more of a thought about making one as they ban be expensive but you can have more fun with one you make and Styrofoam and a light bulb oh a temp indicator and boom you got an incubator ...
Keep it simple sweetie or Kiss
Go to the BYC learning center and look up incubators Enjoy...
Well I had a Russian Orloff chick jump out at day 18
Well them hens only drop an egg every several days but one was dropped this evening so I have a replacement for that empty spot in the incubator
Alright I am sure you learned a lot from your hatch so hopefully that experience will help you do even better on the next hatch .....
Good luck on your next hatch ........
I use the wire bottom in the incubator and the brooder as the wire lets the droppings drop away and into the catch pan for easer cleaning but I have used news paper for taking photos as it reflects the light better and after the photo op the paper is removed .......
My brooder...
Relax and watch the miracle of life and day 19 is alright as it can take more then a day for the chicks to hatch ..
I get egg's hatching anywhere from day 18 to 23 so just sit back as lockdown is just that nothing needed more from you as mother nature is taking over and as much as you think...
Just started my incubator up last week to get everything running correctly then put 30 egg's in yesterday and now hopping for the best ....
Hopping for some more feather heads like this .....