Incubating Guinea Eggs

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Hi
I am new to incubating eggs before I have never done it but I bought an incubator with a fan and digital temp and humidity control. We ran it for 4 days before we put our eggs in it. Candled eggs everything seemed to be ok but I have never done that before either. We are not on day 31 and no signs of hatching. I know you shouldnt but yesterday we did the water test and they did not sink however when I candled I do not see any movement in the eggs. I can still see what appears to be an embryo in there but I am thinking they are dead. I have 4 eggs that were placed in to the incubator 10 days after the first 7 and upon candling them we can see flickers of movement in them. I just do not know what went wrong with the first set of eggs we had a lot of problems with the humidity dropping overnight and it took me quite awhile to figure what out but it never went below 30% and we tried to keep it around 40-45% then upped it to 70% during the last 3 days. I see so many different things online of what the correct humidity should be for guinea eggs and its very confusing because they are VERY different. wondering in anyone has any in sight I am thinking of cracking the eggs open tonight to see what happened to them as we will be on day 32 now with no signs of life.
 
Hi
I am new to incubating eggs before I have never done it but I bought an incubator with a fan and digital temp and humidity control. We ran it for 4 days before we put our eggs in it. Candled eggs everything seemed to be ok but I have never done that before either. We are not on day 31 and no signs of hatching. I know you shouldnt but yesterday we did the water test and they did not sink however when I candled I do not see any movement in the eggs. I can still see what appears to be an embryo in there but I am thinking they are dead. I have 4 eggs that were placed in to the incubator 10 days after the first 7 and upon candling them we can see flickers of movement in them. I just do not know what went wrong with the first set of eggs we had a lot of problems with the humidity dropping overnight and it took me quite awhile to figure what out but it never went below 30% and we tried to keep it around 40-45% then upped it to 70% during the last 3 days. I see so many different things online of what the correct humidity should be for guinea eggs and its very confusing because they are VERY different. wondering in anyone has any in sight I am thinking of cracking the eggs open tonight to see what happened to them as we will be on day 32 now with no signs of life.
Have you removed the vent plugs from the incubator? If the eggs are not getting enough air, the keets can suffocate instead of hatch. This typically happens near the end of the incubation cycle.

Other things to check is the accuracy of the incubator's temperature and humidity. Not all incubators come with accurate temperature monitors and controls.
 
Yes all vents are open we opened eggs tonight as suspected chick are dead never broke threw the membrain what did we do wrong?
 
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