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Congratulations :)

Thanks - seems like that is the only egg I'll get though - haven't gotten any since... Sorry about the bad hatch rate. Guess you will not know for sure why unless you either splurge on a high-quality incubator or try hatching from your own breeding stock, but shipping can be very challenging...

Luckily a stable humidity isn't necessary :) One of my now almost 8 weeks old started crowing the day before yesterday (plus chasing/pecking at two others that I assume are males), and today I got my first egg :wee A perfectly formed egg, and also in size (11g vs 12g om average for the ones I...

No, I haven't incubated again (yet). Not sure how reliable the water test is (besides from drowning chicks if they have pipped). Just for fun I water tested my eggs before my egg autopsy, and all floated (some higher than others) - both nonfertilized and DIS close to hatch... I would also...

Did you see any damage on those eggs? (from hitting the lid) I guess you candled before lockdown so you know there were fertilized? How long did you leave the last eggs after the first hatches? If the temp.diff was high, then you could expect some late hatchers (although that didn't really...

Congrats on the 7 :wee Although a lower hatch rate than I would have though. Did you do an egg autopsy? Sounds strange that a whole row didn't make it, which row was this? (i.e was it the warmest row, the coldest row or just a random one) Mine seemed to be hatching from all over the bator...

So you have larger temperature variations now than before lock-down? Did you put down a matt - if so, do you have a picture of it? From my limited understanding wrong temperature isn't as bad this late (but of course far from ideal). I had massive temperature differences during lock-down, but...

Yes, I removed the egg turner (probably a risk of injury if not). Normal advice is to remove turner, put a shelf liner to prevent damage to the feet (if the "floor" has big holes), and place the eggs on their side on the "floor" (the grid-floor above the water reservoirs). Do make sure your...

How low does it go without water? (some people swear by "dry" incubation) PS. You can adjust the alarm for the humidity to avoid the bleeping

People do say to never trust the readings from any incubator, so hopefully the 38.8C is way off. I did see a post on this forum stating that 97-102F (36.1-38.9C) was the normal temperature range (although that seems to be pushing the limits rather far). Are they barely touching the lid? I would...

Sounds good then. If your extra thermometers are correct then you're as close to spot on as can be it seems. I woud advice you to snatch one of them and test/calibrate it just to make sure, but I didn't bother so... So do as I say and not what I do :gig

The temperature sensor in mine seemed to be somewhat accurate. I can't remember exactly what I had it at, but I think mainly 38.0C. I had my (extra) top right thermometer (which was the hot spot in mine) reading 37.5C I believe (or did I go slightly higher? Somewhere between 37.5 and 38.0C on...

Orpingtons to big? :( And they claim to fit duck eggs as well... For humidity you can do a bit high and then later a bit low, it is the average that counts :) Not sure what's best for humidity though (i.e too low, or too high), but quite a few swear by "dry hatching" so maybe a bit low (on...

From what I've read the ideal temperature for chicken eggs is for the shell temperature to be between 37 and 38C, so you should be able to get away with that (be careful to not go higher though, I've also seen a study where 38.3C gave a 10% decrease in hatching rates, so better to go a bit low...

Well, I think even us without OCD sort of get a bit of OCD when hatching. I think that's a good sign :) Having conditions ideal and stable will probably increase your hatch-rate, I was just trying to point out that we don't need to freak out as much as we tend to lol. I have seen people argue...

I've only hatched once, but I think we (I'm including myself! lol) are too worried about different temperatures; The first week on incubation I probably had a temperature difference of 2C! (up towards 2.6C) the whole week! The second week I got it down to 0.5C (from what I could see that is -...

Not sure if the top right corner is the worst spot - at least that spot is close to the sensor and *should* be rather stable. Mine behaved different than yours though - it would not go much above the set temperature, but rather fluctuate on the downside instead, so for mine top right corner...

Have you tried covering the lid with a sweater? (without having it in the polystyrene) That seemed to help a lot with mine

Ah, rather high shipping then - that changes things a bit... Strange, on this site is says it is the 24S that is the upgraded version (although, as said, I don't think there is much difference between the 24S and 24A)...

hmm Looks like you have more temperature-issues with yours than I did with mine, although you are measuring on different places than I did so maybe I just didn't discover it. You've basically tried most possible combinations. What about using the casing and a hoodie to cover? That didn't work...