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If you have any more that are pipped, you might want to wait until they are hatched. Chicks can stay in the bator for a couple days, other than that you can move them to the brooder as soon as they are dry and fluffy. the brooder needs to be prewarmed though, 95-100 degrees and when you add the...

They do have some really cool looking ones these days. Half of them you ca't even tell they are humidifiers!

You really need the vents open at lockdown. If increasing the surface area of your water, adding a wet sponge/cloth does not work, is there any way that you can higher the humidity of the room that the bator is in with a humidifier or a bowl of water over a heat source if you are using one?

Here's a thread I found where they were discussing the same problem: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/927798/humidity

Humidity needs to be 65% or higher and I do believe I think I've seen people recommend wet paper towels. Use warm water though, cold will bring your temps down.

I lay my eggs down at lockdown, some people cut the bottoms out of egg cartons and hatch them in the cartons like that. If you have clean sponges you can cut one in strips and put them in the bator wet to help up humidity or a wet cloth. It is important to get humidity up so the eggs do not get...

Yup, so it looks like the thermometer I was using is about 6 degrees off. So when it was reading 99/100 it was in fact abt 93/94. That would explain a lot. At least now I know. Maybe the next hatch won't be so bad?? We'll see. Sad thing is that was a brand new thermometer too!

Then unless my thermometer is that much off, I am at a loss. Because we stayed at between 98-100 usually right before the 100 mark (according to the thermometer.) It'll be interesting to see if the thermometer is really that much off.

I'm unfamiliar with that.

You don't think it was the candling? I was certain that's what did them in. Maybe it was the thermometer then, I'll know more this week when I buy the other one and calibrate them. Thanks a lot.

For one thing I had bought a thermometer that wasn't digital so it wasn't to the tenth of the degree, plus I did not calibrate it or check it in anyway whatsoever...you live and learn I guess. I trusted that it was 'close enough to being right'. I know, naive. I am buying a digital for this try...

I am homeschooling my first grade son and our first science unit we decided to do Oviparous animals (animals that lay eggs). My sister who raises chickens offered to let me take her forced air incubator and some eggs to attempt a hatch for our project. I decided as long as she was willing to...