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So over all I hatched 5 chicks from 23 eggs- 11 that went into lock down. Not fantastic but it's actually 3x better than my last hatch rate, so I'm hoping next time is even better again. I feel a few of the lock down eggs were almost there but the posting may have affected the air sacs too much...

I have one chick. I think the other 6 eggs arent going to hatch (fingers crossed for the 4 due tomorrow) I think Im just gonna buy 10 silkie chickens and therefore one will always be broody when I want to hatch chicks. Im so depressed. I thought Id done everything right this time! But i may have...

Today is day 21 and Im a bundle of nerves. There was a short power cut last night and the incubator dropped temperature really quickly for about 20 min. There was 11 eggs that went into lockdown (7 for hatching today, 4 for Thursday) I swear Im looking in the incubator every few minutes (through...

Temp seems stable enough though Im having some issue with my humidity, but cause Im out of the house so much, I have to do what I can and that's all I can do. NZ is about 18 hours ahead of USA (+/- given the different time zones) I candled the other day- I put 23 eggs in a 19 of them had some...

Thanks for all the advice. Sorry I havent replied- been so busy. Ive put the eggs in with the idea that the digital thermometer is almost correct. I havent done the salt test but will do that tonight (I know I should have done it before I put the eggs in, but time has not been my friend lately)...

OK so I now have 4 thermometers in my incubator and of course they are all different. temp 1 (the one I used in my first hatch)= 36C/96.7F humidity 42% Temp 2 (new digital one)= 37.8C/100.4F humidity 57% Temp 3 (new today- got down to 1.5C/34.7F in ice water)= 39C/102.2F Temp 4 (new today- got...

looks very similar but has windows on the top. Maybe an older model?

Wow so many replies already. Ok so it's fan forced incubator- and for some reason I can't seem to find out what brand it is. I swapped the thermometers around and the higher one dropped by 0.5C/1F but the lower one didnt change. Something that is now worrying me is the incubator doesnt feel...

Hey all, I'm new to this world of hatching chickens and have just started my incubator up to the second time (the first time I had horrible hatch rate- only <10% and I don't really know why). I bought a new thermometer just in case this was the issue. So I now have two in my box, and they are...