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Had 2 die so far and 3 hatch. The last hatches have had less trouble and smaller air cells since I've since reduced the humidity. It seems like the mistake can be caught and remedied to a certain extent if caught before lockdown time. Now I know! Better too low than too high. I've been...

Had a third that was supposed to hatch today that pipped through the shell yesterday. I could see it breathing (the pip moving) as I checked it once in a while. It was about to zip and turned the shell's pip downward. No more movement at the beak as of today so I cut that one open. There was no...

Had a second one pip through the shell and could see the cracked shell moving with breaths, but hasn't hatched yet. It's been 12 hours. Today is day 21 for that one. We'll see! I had the one between the first one (which hatched) and this one that died around day 20 with no visible pip. First...

Somehow the chick still hatched healthy (pipped day 20 waited another 12 hours for day 21 to put a hole in the shell then cut around the shell and out an hour later). Pretty surprised. Got another due today

Picked up one at Walmart last night. Hopefully it's Accu-rite. EDIT: tested the $9 Acu-rite indoor digital thermometer/hygrometer against the Hovabator included thermometer and a Sargent-Welch mercury thermometer and the Acu-rite read 3 degrees cooler than the glass units mentioned. I'm guessing...

What humidity gauge? I know... I know... but as mentioned in the first post, it was a case of... hmm... we have all these fertile eggs, why not throw them in the little cooler with a heat pad and see what happens. I had a thermometer and it seemed to hover around 99 to 100F most of the time. But...

I've seen life and movement in these eggs when candling at day 14+ but I must have had the humidity too high (an old 6 pack sized plastic cooler with a heat pad at the bottom, a computer fan on top, and wet paper towel draped on the sides) because the air cell at day 18 and 19 looked about like...