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That's extremely interesting! It's amazing how hard it is to incubate and the mama hen just sits on them and they pretty much all hatch. I really hope one of mine goes broody so I don't have to go through this hassle lol. With my luck, the whole bunch of them will go broody at the same time!

Thanks everyone! I will get that external thermometer!

My thoughts EXACTLY. None of the hens seem interested though :mad:

I'm sorry I don't know what internal pipped looks like or the correct position. I had to rip the membrane, it wasn't easy to get to the chick, and it was white. The shells also broke into little pieces when I cracked them. Does that mean shrink wrapped?

This was so helpful! Thank you! Dumb question: do you put the thermometer inside the incubator?

Maybe. The four that hatched didn't hatch until day 23-25. I'm going to try one more time before throwing in the towel.

Yes, we leave them until day 25. Nothing. This time we had two pip and then zip :\ The rest didn't even pip.

Oh okay! I'll try dry hatching again. I think maybe when I try to up the humidity I do it too much. I never read anywhere not to go over 30. That might be my issue!

So, I am new to incubating eggs. I keep hoping my hens go broody because at the end of three weeks, nothing but disappointment almost every time. We've incubated four times now and one time got nothing. This time we had 30 eggs and only 5 hatched, one of the chicks has wry neck. They were also...