Please help me: Every chick dying during lockdown - Page 5

I am cleaning out my incubator tomorrow (the eggs are already gone, most were not in the right position and did not absorb the yoke and were still very very wet) and then will plug it in and let it run while I wait for my egg-o-meter. I am going to try a complete dry hatch this time with a slow increase on humidity during lockdown. 

I will not let humidity get any higher than 60% during lockdown. Hopefully I can set eggs on Sunday.

I got the egg-o-meter and then DH gave me a nice aquarium thermometer he wasn't using. They are running the same temp, off by several degrees from the one I was using!

I am setting eggs on Wednesday now, collecting today and tomorrow. Hopefully I will have 12 to set. 

I am also running at about 35% humidity with nothing added to it. I hope this hatch goes the way I need it to go!

Thank you so much for all your help!

I set 9 eggs. One was clear. Eight eggs made it to lockdown and all 8 eggs hatched within 24 hours of each other!

They all look super healthy and I am not hatching out 8 Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucana eggs with high hopes. 

I ended up dry hatching and doing my best to keep the temp between 98-100. It fluctuated with the outside temp but I kept a super close eye on it. Then I brought up the humidity to between 60-70% for lockdown and went out of town. We even had a big storm roll in and lost power for 12 hours while we were gone but when I came back Monday night I had a chick in there!

I was feeling so down when I started this thread and now I am feeling so elated!