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Thanks for the heads up about the Springfield hygrometer/thermometer. Mine too reads 40% w/o water even though I calibrated it. Maybe calibrating in a cool 63 degree room was not the right way to do it. I currently have all three instruments calibrating in a zip lock bag with salt slurry in the...

These are pics of a typical air cell on my 15 day eggs. They were shipped from Florida and have saddle air cells. I read this is typical. The 2 pics are of the same egg turned 90 degrees. I have quite a few with this shaped air cell. My incubator is a Genesis 1588, has a fan but no auto...

What should I up the humidity to? 40% or so? The eggs that are only on day 6 still have good looking air cells so I don't want to hurt them in the process of trying to save the rest.

Thanks. Didn't know their were local threads/blogs. Will look now. I will also research assisting shrink wrapped chicks. Very frustrating. I just don't understand how 3 hygrometers can be SO far off.

Obviously a newbie here. This is my first hatch. I am making it difficult on myself with a staggered hatch (4 actually) but I do have a separate incubator for lockdown. The problem is, at 12 days my oldest eggs have air sacks the size of 18day eggs. I live at 5400 ft elevation. The eggs came...