I added an extra fan to help circulate the air and i have got 13 live chicks in the last week. And three more pipped today. However, I noticed the incubator has some spots that are a degree warmer or cooler than 99.5 so i set my thermostat a little high so the warm spots were about 101 and the cool spots 99. I have three thermometers in there checking the temp so i am pretty sure it is accurate.
My chicks have been hatching but if the chick hasn't pipped by the end of day 21 i have yet to have one hatch. I have had several hatch fully on day 20. I have egtopsied the eggs and found a few that were oriented incorrectly in the eggs but some are 100% formed with the yolk sac 100% absorbed and still dead. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong that i can correct the humidity is a little lower than i would like at about 50 % but it is steady.
Any suggestions, i would love to increase my hatch rate?
