Hatching Advice Please :(

[loanwizard]

Try taking out the turner and hatching them in the incubator with the fan.

I just hatched some this morning. Mine have been hatching consistently at 20 - 21 days. In my humble opinion, you are using WAY too much water. I am supplementing my heat with quartz infrared heaters and I think it is affecting my humidity. In fact, my humidity has been running at about 40%. I added sponges yesterday because the water added on day 18 was gone and it only raised the humidity to 45% yet I hatched 9 this morning with another 10 or so pipped. I believe many people, myself included, lose chicks by messing with them too much. If they are formed and left alone, most of them will hatch.

On temperature, at 101, mine seem to hatch a day early. I was concerned with this hatch because I have had a fluctuation in temps with the weather. It seems to be working out even with lower humidity.

Chickens are hatched all over the world in different seasons. Keep a constant temp, just like a hen, and let God do his thing.

 

[peachie600]

First of all I would Love to THANK everyone who has responded as I am at wits end and yes kind of discouraged.
The first incubator with the turner is the one I have been spraying every morning. The humidity varies in that one......but I have to believe almost all are making it throught that stage

I have towels etc in the second.....thats what I'm drenching.....
Perhaps the humidity change between the two is too huge for them.
Could someone explain shrink wrapped BETTER......these dead peeps do have the inner membrane against them......but its like tissue paper thin and there is plenty of moisture around the actual chick. Just want to make sure thats not whats happening here.
Unfortunately I have two different sets in incubator number one right now......so I don't think I can remove the turner.....I am so DETERMINED to succeed at this

Thanks again

 

[Impress]

With a shrink wrap the chick would literally be wrapped in a dry sticky membrane, just like someone put cellophane on the chick and then sucked all the air out of the inside. It happens once the eggs have pipped externally, the eggs have moisture inside to keep them from shrink wrapping while in there, it is usually caused by too low of humidity AFTER the external pip. If they are never making it to external pip, they could be drowning or suffocating in the eggs due to high humidity.