Need Some Help!!!

[Drew6Melton]

This is my 3ed hatch this year and i set 24 eggs in all of them and i have only been geting like 7 to 12 to hatch i start out at 45% and day 18 i go to 65% dont know what im doing wrong got a suro 20 incubator

 

[babsbag]

Do you open the eggs that don't hatch? What stage are they at? Are they shipped eggs? What do your temps run?

 

[Drew6Melton]

they are full grown in the egg it look like to me keep my tep at 99.6 it look like they are drowning in the egg but not sure and not shiped egg

 

[babsbag]

What are you running the humidity at? It is my understanding that they can't drown in the egg until they do an internal pip.

I have read a bunch on here in the last few months and there is just a lot of information. It seems that everyone runs the humidity a little differently but I will tell you what worked for me, and believe me I am a newbie. But here goes. I ran it at 30-35% the first 18 days, and then 70% at lockdown. But I did raise it gradually starting on day 16. I have no idea if it made a difference or not, but it worked. I only turned the eggs 2x on weekdays and 4x on weekends because of my work schedule. I only candled on day 8 and day 18. I didn't have an auto turner, but I had one rigged where I didn't have to open the incubator to turn them. I had the eggs in egg cartons until lockdown, and then I laid them on their sides in cupcake wrappers. I don't think the wrappers helped hold them in place at all, but that was my hope. My temps ran about 98.5 -101, but I tried to keep them lower rather than higher. I have a home made incubator with a fan.

Hopefully others will give you some more ideas on what could be wrong. I am sorry that you are having so many problems. I also read that you need to make sure that your incubator is cleaned really well. I don't know what to use as I have not had to clean mine yet since it was just built.