Hatching Pros: why is air pocket so small?

[SundownWaterfowl]

Quote:
http://www.duckeggs.com/hatching-eggs.html

Huh! See that? You learn something new every day! I never would have thought of it that way...

Goddess

I didnt believe it either, until I tried it and it worked. Its interesting though.

 

[Soccer Mom]

So that the eggs don't get shocked with a cold burst of water, I keep a small sprayer of water in the incubator with the eggs.

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

This is all very interesting advice, but I'm still a little confused

I did increase my humidity this time to 58% through day 18 then bumped it up to 62% because I had read that bantam eggs need more humidity (and my hatch rates were low then also).
Without water in the bator I never get humidity higher than 40%, so I don't think I could go with the "no water, just misting".
I had hoped I was going to get it right this time because I've ordered eggs online. Don't mind losing my "free" eggs so much as I will bought eggs..

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

Oh yeah....I don't candle my eggs; I don't trust my judgement on what I see, and I know I wouldn't discard them anyway

 

[Fairybee]

if hatching was only this easy

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1744569113/