Hatch date May 17! anybody else?

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Today is day 17, so Im getting really excited..I know Im suppost to stop turning eggs on day 18 , raise humidity and lock down...But is the last time i turn them tonight or do I turn them once more on day 18 morning? Do I raise humidity tinight or wait until tomorrow on Day 18 to raise it?
My humidity has been right around 50% give or take..So I need to raise it to about 65%, right? Ive only incubated once before, i dont remember how i did it. Ive had 1 air vent open the whole time but when do i open the second one?
 
I would just leave it around 50%, if they seem to be having trouble you can put a wet washcloth in there to bump it up long enough for them to get out.

I've got 1 goose egg due to go in lockdown today (the other eggs quit), then I've got 1 chicken egg due to go tomorrow. So I guess I'll just take the eggs due in the next 4-5 days' and move them all so I don't have to keep moving a few eggs every day. That would be the goose (already in the hatcher), 1 chicken egg, 2 turkey eggs, 12 pheasant eggs, and I might move the 10 coturnix eggs too. But if I move those (due the 19th), then I might as well move the 18 chicken eggs also due the 19th...some of them are Serama, so those have to be moved. They always seem to hatch early.

Hmmm....that's 6 days before those hatch, so I think I'll stop with the pheasants for now.
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I will do that just leave it at 50%

Wow, you have a lot going on in your incubator... hatching eggs seems addicting..haha I want to more in once these ones hatch, but I got rid of my old rooster, and my silkie roo is only about 6 months...He hasnt had any interest in any hens yet, so no fertile eggs...Except ducks but i dont need more ducks...maybe I should just go get another friendlier rooster for my older hens...hhhhmmmmm......
 
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Oh no...how come a delayed hatch? did something happen?

Candling my eggs around day 15, most didn't seem to be as opaque as they seem to need to be. I think one of my two incubators was running a bit cool (about 98 degrees) for the first 10 days.... we had a 2 hour power outage one day, but that didn't seem to be long enough to compromise the hatch.

Crossing my fingers!
 
My first attempt at incubating... due to hatch on the 17th as well!

I'm using a borrowed Little Giant forced air model. It's been hard to keep the humidity level up, had to put in a sponge to help.

There are 25 eggs set, half are EE's and half a cross of my EE roo and hybrid brown hens. Just doing this to give it a try and see how it all goes.

Good luck everyone!
 

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