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A sponge typically increases the surface area. Some people use jar lids for their water. They keep trying different size lids until they find the one that gets the humidity right for them.

Do not close the vent plug. They need more oxygen while hatching than at any other time. Control the humidity by controlling the surface of the water. More surface area = higher humidity, less surface area = lower humidity. Never use the vent to control humidity.

The ones Incubator Warehouse sells are really good and run on AAA batteries.

You might try changing the battery.

If they don't have any cracks they are unlikely to explode. It isn't uncommon for there to be some that are cracked during shipping. Cracked eggs are very likely to explode. I never intentionally set any cracked eggs.

@Kiki used to candle every day. As long as you don't keep the incubator open too long at a time, it does not hurt anything and may actuaslly help. Broody hens normally get off a nest every day. I had broody chicken hens that would get off their nest every day for at least 15 minutes. They...

Make omelets.

Either way. The screws cause the plastic to swell into the hole making an excellent fit. It keeps the cement from crumbling.

When drilling concrete blocks, I use the plastic screw inserts in the holes I drill.

Hammer drill is faster and keeps the bit contact area from glazing which makes the drilling take longer. Concrete blocks should drill just fine with a normal drill and a masonry bit.

Happy Birthday!!! @Pyxis

One more item is that hatching eggs can be shipped via UPS or FedEx. One of the worst things for hatching eggs is to be shipped by air in an unpressurized cargo hold. The changes in pressure due to the changes in altitude can destroy them. Given the choice, I have hatching eggs shipped by...

They're all bad but less can happen to it sitting there waiting for you than the additional transport and final toss delivering it to you. Some of the harm is unintentional such as sitting hatching eggs by a heater duct to "keep them warm". My experience is that eggs that come through a major...

Have the eggs held for pick up.

They are a prey species.

I really like it when customers get their hatchlings straight from the incubator.

FYI, if shipped eggs do not develop, it does not necessarily mean they are infertile. Eggs that go by airplane in a non-pressurized cargo bay can be destroyed by the changes in altitude. They will not develop even if they were definitely fertile to start with.

Same here only with a cabinet incubator. The chicks, keets or poults would fall out of the tray and be running around on the bottom of the incubator.

I found no difference when I set shipped eggs immediately with the turner on from the start and any of the other recommended practices of letting them set and no turning. Experiments have proven that the most important time to turn eggs is during the earliest part of incubation..

Are you saying that you like yours?