Day 22 and no pips

[Kiki]

So 2 of em hatched. Candled the rest and all seems like they are dead. No internal pip nor movements. Their aircell is very big! Humidity was at 60% .

Did you salt test your humidity gauge for you started incubating?

 

[Kiki]

Update : 2 out of 9 eggs hatched.
3 more pipped but they pipped at the pointy end downwards! Checked today morning and realised they all pipped the wrong end and was dead facing the floor

Out of the two hatching one is very energetic and the other is still asleep and its yolk sack is still intact unabsorbed. This chick is also very small compared to the other hatched one. Will this survive?? No its not an assisted hatch. Both hatched on their own. But one jus hatched before absorbing the yolk and is asleep.

What type of turner do you have in the incubator?

 

[Kabindramagar]

Hello,
Mine dosent have a turner
Its a DIY incubator and egg turning I do is manually.

Id turned em 3 times a day for 18 days and stopped for lockdown.

What type of turner do you have in the incubator?

 

[Kabindramagar]

Did you salt test your humidity gauge for you started incubating?

Hello,
Sorry I didnt understand what you meant.
I bought a new hygrometer and checked the humidity before lockdown
It was at 60% and dropped slightly during hatch to about 55%

 

[Kiki]

Hello,
Mine dosent have a turner
Its a DIY incubator and egg turning I do is manually.

Id turned em 3 times a day for 18 days and stopped for lockdown.

Ahh ok. This might be why they pipped on the wrong side. I'm not so sure that three times is enough per day.

 

[Kiki]

Hello,
Sorry I didnt understand what you meant.
I bought a new hygrometer and checked the humidity before lockdown
It was at 60% and dropped slightly during hatch to about 55%

Salt testing a humidity gauge if something that can be done easily with its salt and a ziplock bag.
Give me a minute and I'll find the article to show you how to do it.

There are a ton of things that could go wrong with do-it-yourself incubators if you don't have calibrated instruments.

You have at least one calibrated thermometer in there?

There's absolutely no way that any of us are going to be able to tell you exactly what went wrong but the first things to check would be to make sure you're humidity was correct and make sure that you are turning them enough each day.
Also it's important to make sure nothing is overheated or too underheated.

Having multiple calibrated thermometers in the incubator will let you see at one quick glance what the temperature is in various spots.

 

[Kiki]

https://www.cigarsinternational.com/cigar-101/salt-test/1818029/

 

[pinewoodacres]

Ahh ok. This might be why they pipped on the wrong side. I'm not so sure that three times is enough per day.

My first hatch, I used egg cartons and elevated one side to “turn” them. I switched sides once in the morning and again before bed. It was fine. Twice a day is pretty normal for people who turn manually.