Fully formed chicks will not hatch!

[Leaguinea]

That the way I incubate everything.

My rates went up after I tried it. I've upgraded to cabinets now. Still use this method.

I hatch chickens, pheasant, quail and turkey. Of these the only one that makes me pull my hair out is pheasant. The rest hatch great.

Give it a shot.

As humidity is a thing that you have to find what works best for your area.

When dry hatching, what does your humidity sit at?

 

[Leaguinea]

I don't consider myself a hatching expert by any means, but I used to have pretty good luck hatching chicken eggs, but this year has been a disaster! Last year, I used a little giant incubator in my classroom with the kids and all our eggs hatched except 3. When I hatched more at home, we had pretty good luck as well. This year out of 72 eggs, only 20 hatched when I tried to hatch them at school again. I bought a new little giant incubator, put a thermometer that read temp and humidity and tried to hatch some at home. Out of a full incubator (about 35) I only had a few hatch. This week, I tried again. Today is hatch day. I had 3 hatch like popcorn and thought we were off to a good start. There is no more pipping going on in there with about a dozen eggs left.. We candled all of them before lock down and they are full ready-to-hatch eggs. I'm afraid we're going to see the same thing again. As far as humidity, the humidity is about 45-50 in the beginning. I raise the humidity to about 70-75 during lockdown. I do not know what else to do. Can someone please help! This is soooo disappointing!!

Same thing happened to me, Guinea eggs, hatched 3 on day 25-26, yesterday was hatch day (day 28) and nothing else has hatched.

 

[Leaguinea]

Same thing happened to me, Guinea eggs, hatched 3 on day 25-26, yesterday was hatch day (day 28) and nothing else has hatched.

I opened the 10 remaining eggs and they were all fully formed keets that had diedI can't figure out what I did wrong that would cause this.
I am setting another batch so will see what the result of that is in 28 days (approx.)

 

[Fairview01]

When you went into lockdown were the eggs lying flat or vertically. It was suggested to me that on lockdown put the eggs in an egg carton. The chicks can't play kickball with ones that haven't hatched and very rarely do they internally pip in the wrong place and drown. One switched over maybe one or two failed to hatch after lockdown.

 

[Chickassan]

With my last hatch I only filled one channel until lockdown and that put me at 40 percent. I also removed those stupid red plugs as they were not allowing proper air circulation. The probe was removed from the plastic and set near the middle in between the element and that top air hole.I didn't tinker with the temperature at all and added wet paper towels at lockdown instead of filling additional channels this put me at 60 percent hatch raised it by 5 on it's own. Hatch rate was 80 percent with a small brood.