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It may be the heart beat first. The chick I thought would not make it as it has blood come from the pip has hatched in its own. Still have one egg that has a good side pip but still waiting to see if it goes any further. 9 chicks so far. One looks a little week though.

That is normal. I have always even the air cells this way. Looks good.

I have heard frozen fruit is good for cooling chickens down. We are up to 8 chicks now. One I had to help. It did completely absorb the blood vessels and yolk but I think it was rolled around a little too much by the other chicks. I carefully removed the top of it’s shell and it took it...

Have you tried a baby pool for the Wyandottes? I have heard that many will use one. Maybe that would be good for them. A mister sometimes works if the birds do not mind getting wet. Our chicken would run out in the rain.

Keep me posted on how it goes. As far as heat we have large shade trees over our current hoop coop. We also have hardware cloth for the back window and sides so loads of air. We decided against putting in a solid decider between the run and roost so air is plenty. Our neighbor down the road...

If you humidity is high the one concern would be if the air cell is getting big enough. Just keep and eye on that. You can find drawings of what that would look like when candling. As I understand too humid can make is so the air cell is not getting big enough. Someone here should correct me...

So far the highest humidity was 79% and that is when we had two chicks hatch at once time. The first chick raised it to 62%. I knew it would increase as they hatched. One thing I did do is add warm water instead of just room temp which did cause an increase faster. I did that earlier this...

We now have 5 hatched chicks now. (Make that 6) One is zipping but the others keep turning it around and it’s opening is facing down. We have two more that have pipped. The one that pipped at the wrong end looked like it was still trying but maybe not going to get out. I tried loading a...

In North Central FL which is very humid. I did not add water for 18 days and humidity stayed around 25%. (The incubator is in our home which keeps the humidity low.) Finally added water and the humidity started at 40% and is up at 66% and one chick is out (first to pip). Several others have...

I would keep it in the bathroom. As I understood with a dry hatch you get humidity from the environment (FL hot). Apparently my HVAC is working overtime and keeping my house dry, which ia what you typically want to prevent must and mildew.

Just turned off the turner and laid eggs out on the incubator floor. Humidity was still under 30% so I added water to the first of two chambers using warm tap (well water) and in minutes my Govee showed the humidity up to over 60%. To lower it I used napkins in the water spout to pull some...

In the far past I used the standard practice and did okay. I was in Delaware in the winter, so dry. I read about dry hatching this time around and thought with the humidity in Florida it was the way to go. Apparently my HVAC keeps my home pretty dry so my bator is not as humid as I thought it...

I am in Florida myself and coming up to day 18 of incubation this afternoon. I am kind of going back and forth on this myself. My home humidity is only 30% the incubator registers the humidity at 34% but the Govee in it has it at 25.5%. I am thinking of raising the humidity this afternoon to...