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Does your incubator and a fan inside? I have heard this helps, but I don't have a fan in mine, yet. I am happy you had a few hatch! I wish you more luck in the future and look forward to seeing pictures.

Beautiful, did they hatch? I was hoping for a update and some pictures.

I can't take credit for this trick. When I had the drying problem with the chicks unable to hatch completely I googled it. This is one of the pages I found: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/61098/question-about-using-sponges-to-get-humidity-up This forum has really helped me!

Don't give up yet Beautiful. I put the damp sponge in as the chicks started hatching. I know you shouldn't open the incubator during this time, but I watched 42 eggs pip then die. I opened each of the dead shells to figure out what happened. Each of them were dry in the shell. If you put...

I am sorry about them not hatching. We had the same problem. I've only tried this trick once and I am very new to incubators. This last hatching I had better luck when placing warm wet sponges inside the incubator. If I noticed a chick having troubles after a full day of trying to hatch with...