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The one thing I see wrong is your humidity is too high for day 1 to 18. Have you tried a dry hatch??? I put no water in at all for the first 18 days. It usually stays around 20% depending on the humidity outside. On day 18 they are moved to lock down and humidity is bumped to 60-65%. I think your chicks are probably drowning during lock down because they haven't lost enough moisture during incubation.
I have tried the dry hatch method with no change in hatch ratios (with shipped eggs). The air cells looked perfect on day 18 when they were moved to the hatcher. All this was covered in the previous thread. It is extremely dry here where I am and you have to add humidity or it will get down to 5%.