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Thank you! We live in the mountains so our weather fluctuates a lot, I'm hoping to try and create a controlled environment by closing the heater vent in that room. We actually only had one hatch so I may go get a friend for it this weekend, I wouldn't want to introduce a lone chicken into our flock

Thank you for the info! It was interesting how wet the inside was but the white membrane seemed dry..I did a salt test on my hygrometers and they were within 1 and 3% I know a few times early in incubation the humidity was low so I added water and then it got pretty high..most of the time it was...

Here is my set up..the black thermometer runs 2 degrees high all the time

Thanks for giving me the idea about the turner motor, after I salt calibrated my thermo/hygrometers, I set up the baton empty and placed one thermo in either end, sure enough it was warmer by 1.5 degree on the turner motor side, I switched thermometers and got the same result..next hatch I will...

Doing the salt test now and calibrating a regular meat thermometer as back up for the digital ones, thank you for your replies, as for moving them around, no, I left them in their places in the turner and would put them back in the same after I candled them..they lay on their sides in the...

I am going to try another batch with just two eggs and document it more closely to get my technique down and test out thermo/hydro better

It must have been when I took the first one out that things went bad for the others I don't see how this one could be so healthy and those others not even make it

Yes and the one little I got is growing at a very fast rate in my opinion, it is already getting secondary feathers

Thank you for replying yes I figured it was some kind of humidity issue my first chick hatched early on thursday and began pecking the incubator Friday afternoon so I took it out and I added more water to the incubator..I probably should have waited longer or not added water ugh..maybe I added...

I ended up opening the last two they look like they may have been positioned wrong with a problem in humidity

I think the dark you are talking about is a wing and the yellow were thick clumps of yolk, I gave the other 2 one more night and will open today..kinda putting it off as we got snow so I can't bury them ☹️

I had 6 local eggs set to hatch on Friday, 2 died early on, and 4 made it to lock down, 1 hatched Thursday and I saw doing great. I decided to do an eggtopsy on one of the remaining eggs because I could no longer see an air sac..this is what I found