Dead in egg update second hatch 100% update on pg 3

Ok so I set the very first eggs my silkies laid 22 days ago, and none were over 5 days old at setting. Incubators were spot on the whole time. NOTHING! No spikes no drops no anything. I lowered the humidity to 35% during incubation since my first hatch I only had 8 of 16 hatch. I did keep the humidity at 70% for hatch. I also kept my hands of the eggs except for candeling one time. My air sacs looked good and I thought they all were developing. I heard one egg chirping for over 24 hours but woke up this morning expecting chicks but all I have is a very quiet bator. NO PIPS NO CHICKS NO NOTHING! What am I doing wrong? I have ask Bobbi to hold off on shipping the eggs I ordered becasue if I can't hatch non shipped eggs I darn sure can't hatch shipped eggs. I really am trying so very hard and this is so depressing. I HATE INCUBATION! Way to many what if's for me. Does anyone have any tips for me. I have 10 more going into lock down on the 26th. I would love not to kill them as well. THIS JUST STINKS! I want to thow the stupid bator across the field. I have Hovabators one is a 1602N the other a 1588 which I use for the hatcher. I use a bleach solution to clean and allow them to dry in the sun. I do not think it is the bator it is either me or the eggs. My chickens get a blanced diet of flock raiser mixed with a conditioning feed, and get fresh veggies a couple times a week and have free access to calcium and grit.
Thank you for looking.
Tisha

 

I lowered the humidity during incubation because last time on the shipped eggs I had some chicks that never untucked their heads to pip and thought maybe they drown. I thought humidity at lockdown was 70%. Or would have ran it lower! I have 10 more I will need move into the hatcher that are from the same chickens the week after these eggs. I was putting everything in that was laid trying to get more experience. I know 3 of the eggs were smaller and was told they most likely would not hatch. I am just learning what to set and what not to set. But at this rate it looks like I don't need to set anything and am very tempted to toss the eggs in there now. It just stinks!
Thank for your input I do hope to stop killing chicks at some point.

 

Ok so I have a plan! I have a friend who has kindly offered me some eggs from her flock, that I will pick them up Black Friday and set on Saturday. That will tell me if it is me or the eggs. In the mean time I will contact others in my area and see what humidity level is working for them. I ran the humidity at 35 because last time with the shipped eggs when I was running it higher I had fully developed chicks that made no attempt to pip and most died at the time they should have pipped according to the level of yolk sac absorption I saw when I opened the eggs! I will try and find the thread on here on eggtopsy and double check. I still have 11 going into the hatcher on the 26th and then 10 more moving over on the 30th. Surely I can figure this out I did bump the humidity on the incubator up to 45 range. Original 7 still in the hatcher not much hope at this point. I plan to open them tomorrow. I can't give up I have to figure this out hopefully sooner rather than later. I have brand new HovaBators, only ever had one hatch in them, and I am not using cheap instruments, so I trust them as well. It is either me or the eggs.

 

This is the thread on eggtopsies! Post 20 could have been my pics!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=363717&p=2
That is exactly what my dead babies looked like from the shipped eggs and also why I lowered my humidity this time. I have ask Bobbi to hold off shipping till I get to the bottom of this. I just really wanted to have a few SG eggs to put in next year. I don't want to mess things up by putting my very nice showgirls with lesser quality silkies cause you know I am going to want to keep them all. I am not sure how anyone can sell them! They are just too cute!

P.S. They are doing so good I couldn't be happier Jen!

 

Bat Cave Silkies why do you not turn for the first 3 days? I opened the eggs today and the first 2 very small eggs that were laid by 2 diffrent pullets (I thought had stopped earlier) were acutally fully developed but very small chicks inside. They were only taking up 1/2 of the egg. The one that pipped internally I did not see any reason it should not have hatched. The other 2 were normal sized chicks with over half of the yolk sac absorbed. I will put pic up on my facebook today or tomorrow, but I hate uploading on this site. With my camera I can directly upload to facebook. I had one which did not have a nice clear internal membrane the rest looked normal. None appeared to be shrink wrapped even the one that was not clear was still moist. I am more confussed now than before. I will keep trying till I figure this out.
Thanks everyone I am really trying to figure this out!

I am on page 8 of this thread I do hope it helps me before I kill anymore chicks. The 2 people I have ask so far do dry incubation and they are also located in TN.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=113681&p=9