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Pro series on top where controller is 80 humidity 90 temp

On top of little giant humidity 40 temp 99.5

tracyjg said:

My head is spinning trying to keep up please bear with me. Trying to do two many things at once. We still have the 30 dozen in the laundry room I don't have anywhere to put them. Approximately at room temp 80 we air on. If it takes 21 days tell incubation . We our losing a bunch of eggs. And they have never hatched .all at once for me. One litter two two weeks.for 4.we a vet looking at 3. Because we kept losing baby's .

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Can you describe your incubating set up for us? What temperature are you keeping your incubator at? Do you have multiple thermometers? How old are the eggs you are setting? Is your incubator still air or forced air? Perhaps we can help you find out what's going on and why you aren't getting hatches

Or are they hatching and then the chicks are dying? I wasn't sure which one you meant. Either way we may be able to help you get this figured out

Zoology hydrometer temp 90 and humidity 60 right side left side incu therm 60 84.4temp

tracyjg said:

Pro series on top where controller is 80 humidity 90 temp

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tracyjg said:

On top of little giant humidity 40 temp 99.5

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tracyjg said:

Zoology hydrometer temp 90 and humidity 60 right side left side incu therm 60 84.4temp

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Are these still air? If still air, the temp is too low in both of them. If it's forced air, the temp is right on in the little giant. In the pro series you are very low - for forced air you need to be 99.5 and for still you need to be 101.5 at top of the eggs. 84.4 is way low too.

Do you have more than one thermometer in each incubator? You will want to make sure your thermometers are calibrated or they could also be reading wrong and that of course would lead to a bad hatch.

Little gaint is due on 21st.and pro series is weeks past due. I don't have the hurt to throw out at the moment trying to give extra time .

tracyjg said:

Little gaint is due on 21st.and pro series is weeks past due. I don't have the hurt to throw out at the moment trying to give extra time .

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Weeks past due means they aren't going to hatch A couple days maybe, but weeks is too long and they are not going to hatch. If your temperatures were as low as you describe they may not have really started to incubate at all.

Edit: This is also a silly question, but some people don't realize this is a necessity so, your eggs are coming from a flock with a rooster, correct? Just asking because I did not see a single embryo in any of the candling pictures you posted and you should have at least some development in the Little Giant if your temp of 99.5 has been consistent throughout incubation.

Little giant circulated air incubator with forced air fan kit. We upgraded to a better fan for higher temps and humidity .and bought egg turner separately after fact. Pro series incubator circulated air incubator turner included. We also upgraded the fan to these incubator because of or home being around 80 in home with everything on. Air fan humidifier vaporizer and nebulizer on both incubator or it will be all over the place on temp and humidity .

tracyjg said:

My head is spinning trying to keep up please bear with me. Trying to do two many things at once. We still have the 30 dozen in the laundry room I don't have anywhere to put them. Approximately at room temp 80 we air on. If it takes 21 days tell incubation . We our losing a bunch of eggs. And they have never hatched .all at once for me. One litter two two weeks.for 4.we a vet looking at 3. Because we kept losing baby's .

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I hate to be the one to rain on your parade, but here it comes.

If you have eggs in the incubators that have been there for more than 23 days, shut off your incubators and bury the eggs.

If you have 30 dozen eggs that have been in there for a few weeks at 80 degrees, bury them too. They won't hatch and I wouldn't want to offer them up to be eaten. I've received eggs like that. Ewww.

If you have so many chickens that you accumulate that many eggs and you can't eat the eggs, can you sell the eggs? If not, sell some hens. And then sell the roosters.

Many of us keep chickens as pets, but chickens do breed if you keep males and females. If you hatch the eggs, you have to do something with the hatchlings. If you keep them all, you will be overrun with chickens, and that is no laughing matter.

It's on top of the incubator. Which or often wrong. On top means on top the manufacturing company's settings. Zoology hydrometer and encu therm or what we added our selfs to adjust.