Eeek just started lockdown and the humidity won't stay up

[Arielle]

Temp is holding and humidity is 65%, still not pipping, moving or noise

Many first time hatching attempts are not sucessful. That is ok. Did you learn something? Can you tweak the technique and try again?

Did you candle and was the air cell developing appropriately?
How did the temps hold thruout the incubation? I use a human thermometer that registers the highest temps and I can check when temp has moderated again; I know the highest temps.
Has the temp dropped? THis can slow development and it can cause the chick to stop development all together.
How were the eggs stored before setting?

These are a few of the many possible reasons why eggs don't hatch. Hope you will try again!

 

[RollinWithTheStones]

Eggs went straight from bird to the bator within 3 hours, I have 3 thermometers each registering from 3 different spots. Temp stayed study but once I upped the humidity it did drop down to 97, I did get six chicks that hatched very quickly but I have 42 more that I'm waiting on. Actual hatch date isn't until tomorrow so I'm still hoping they work out.

I have a web cam set up and figures the ones that hatched were not on camera

Eggs appeared to be developing correctly just like the pics on BYC. I even saw movement on day 18 in a few of them, but most were brown and hard to candle.

I will be trying again for the easter hatch and if all goes well I will have white eggs since they were easiest to candle.

Thanks for all the support. I'll keep you updated

 

[Arielle]

Sounds like all is well! You will be swimming in fluff balls soon. ANd the cam will catch all the action.

 

[BLRW]

I use to help alot until I started building my own incubators. Now they work so perfectly there is no need to help out. I have had some success in the past helping but like I said ussually its a chick with bad legs or feet and there is no help for them. If your having trouble with all your chicks hatching then yes you will save the majority of them since it's not bad chicks it's bad incubator.

 

[Arielle]

I use to help alot until I started building my own incubators. Now they work so perfectly there is no need to help out. I have had some success in the past helping but like I said ussually its a chick with bad legs or feet and there is no help for them. If your having trouble with all your chicks hatching then yes you will save the majority of them since it's not bad chicks it's bad incubator.

x2 I agrre. IT's the begginner efforts and using homemade or an LG that causes most of the hatching problems. WIth time and experience, the hatching problems decline a lot. In my last batch, I had staggered hatchings. LIke a chick alsmost every day for about 10 days. THe all pipped and zipped with out any help. Many were out in just a few hours. And this was my homemade incubator on its second trial.

I 'm nerotic about running the temps as close to 99-100 consistently, that I haven't had really early or really late hatches. ANy leg problem I gave them PT six sessions a day and they were good to go.. I use jars of water as heat sinks to moderate the temps and prevent drops and spikes.

We all learned thru trial and error how to hatch eggs!

 

[RollinWithTheStones]

Thanks everyone so far out of 50 eggs I had 13 hatch, one had his insides out and he needed to be culled Other then that I have 12 healthy chicks.

I still have 20 in the incubator, some were opened because their color looked off and turns out they weren't fertile or died off probably by day 10.

I made a list of improvements so in a few days I'll clean and mod my incubator again.

 

[Arielle]

Very exciting ! 13 chicks!

Good job.

 

[RollinWithTheStones]

Well thanks for the help everyone, incubator is empty and I've made a few adjustments for the Easter hatch. If I can get a couple bantam eggs in the next few days then I might pop them in just to give it another test run and it'll just have to over lap with the easter hatch.