Well with the help of some folks and posts on here I think I have it figured out. The lowered humidity helped. Had 2 more hatch today. But still seem too wet and slightly sticky. Upon checking, the humidity is still way too high. Machine says 25-30. Reality is its truly 45-50 plus. Machine...
Its a Janoel Plastic incubator. I was told by a few folks to check the temp at mid egg so thats why I did that. Its almost the same at upper and lower egg with the forced air. The chicks were all pipping the shell at day 25 as soon as I got them in the hatcher. They did not seem to be shrink...
So here is my story. Last year I tried to incubate some Rio Grande turkey eggs in a couple of still air older foam incubators. It was not good. I measured temps and realized the older incubators had so much fluctuation and that the temps were all over the board. So I purchased 2 new digital...