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I usually let bad eggs go way too long — I hate to throw anything out until 2 weeks in! But I can tell you from experience that even the "iffy" eggs hardly ever turn around... if I think something looks even slightly off, 9 times out of 10 that egg won't make it to lockdown or show any sign of...

I think these tales are just tales. That said, I just had a small hatch of Bielefelders with a very tragic end... :hmm of the 6 that made it to lockdown, 3 were malpositioned inside the egg and couldn't pip properly. I didn't assist in time and they all died, sadly. The 3 that were positioned...

Oh, I should caveat the dry hatching thing for elevation — if you live more than a few thousand feet above sea level it's better to keep higher humidity throughout the hatch. But otherwise most people have very good results erring on the side of lower humidity until lockdown.

I'm a big fan of dry hatching with cheap incubators and have had some of my best hatches at 16-35% humidity until lockdown! Frustrating that you have air cells all over the place but personally I'd still lower humidity, since more of your eggs are likely to benefit from that. I'd wager there's...

I use a high-powered flashlight and a candler interchangeably, just whichever I can find first. You don't need a candler, although they're cheap and work just fine as flashlights after you're done incubating so they're not necessarily a waste of money. The curved surface of the light source is...