Hold my hand please, first timer here....

[Paganbird]

LOL!
You're doing great!
I don't have any pips, either. I'm on day 20 and the eggs I set were badly damaged in shipping. Even though I'm using a cabinet incubator and separate hatcher, they might not make it.
If I had used my old LG, I doubt they would have made it to lockdown!
The LGs are good for small "hobby" hatches. I've had some excellent hatches in mine. I got a larger cabinet (GQF Sportsman) incubator because I have lost some rather expensive eggs due to the unreliable nature of the LG. The cabinet 'bator is great! Just set it & leave it. No worries at all. The temp hasn't moved from 99.5 since I set it 4 days before I got my eggs. I just add water & that's it.
I told you the sponges would work!

Don't worry, I'm betting on you to win the mani/pedi!!
LOL!

 

[kidsmaw]

Mary, don't give up hope, pull yourself together. Do it for the babies!

My first chick pipped on Saturday at 11 pm and hatched on... wait for it... wait for it... Monday at 7:29 am! 32 hours and 29 minutes later. Thought it would be the death of ME! I even tried "tough love", you know... telling the egg things like, "I don't care if you peep out the ABC's, I'm not coming over there to check on you"!

I am now on day 23 (day 24 starts at 11 am this morning) and nothing has come of the other 8 eggs (no pipping, no peeping, no rock & roll). Thought I heard a bunch of tapping yesterday, but now I am beginning to think it was just the crunching of the Styrofoam bator from my ear smashing it down on top.

Come on Mother Nature, time to step up your game!

 

[McCord6]

I just thought of this. Why not cut the sponges up in pieces and put them under the wire sheet? would that work? make sure the whole bottom of the incubator is full of the sponge.

 

[2txmedics]

A sponge bator!!!...I have one sponge, all my wells in bator with water...and one sponge that I put in has changed my humidity from 53 to 68%

I set the sponge earlier, and then I placed a hose in the bator hole and got my syrgine with the cath and filled it with warm water.