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I did a run with local eggs, dry hatch at 40% humidity. I upped it to 65% at hatch. 7 chicks hatched of the 21 in lockdown. I discovered I have uneven humidity in the incubator which influenced the hatch. I eggtopsied 5. 4 were fully developed and two of those had internal pips. The other...

Going from high to low is no problem but low to high the embryos have issues getting enough oxygen so they say to up humidity and leave both plugs out. One site even recommended injecting oxygen straight into the incubator but the fire warning attached made me nervous. :/ I will be sticking to...

I tried to mitigate altitude issues by buying from a location at altitude. The eggs came from Montana at 4k ft but I guess it still wasn't good enough. :/

Farm Innovators Pro. It's very similar to a hovabator.

Yes, the chicks head was at the small end and for lockdown I took egg cartons and cut them down to keep the fat end up. This is suppost to help chicks survive hatching with damaged air cells

I will definantly lower the humidity in the future but the high altitude advise for shipped eggs was exactly what I did. I think I will try dry incubation on some local eggs with the next batch. Hopefully that will have better results. Joyous- Thanks. I tried to check all the blocks on...

The head is on the left, beak pointing down. Kinda hard to make out.

Ok, I ordered hatching eggs and ended up with a 5/22 hatch. Two of the chicks that hatched have partially absorbed yoke sacs. One is fiesty and recovering the other is very droopy and I am trying to work with it. I followed hatching advise for at altitude hatching of shipped eggs (thats where...