ok time for as much advice as possible

[yinepu]

im going to make a suggestion.. for the next hatch.. do everything like you have been.. but for lockdown add another dish of water and have a very wet sponge sticking out of it (basically you need to increase the water's surface area to increase the humidity). also .. do you have a hygrometer and has it been calibrated?.. if not.. get one and calibrate it to make sure it's accurate.. then when you add that extra dish of water with sponge.. see how high it goes.. the higher during lockdown the better for now...

 

[njduck]

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I only have a rooster when I am trying to incubate. so when a hen goes broody. I don't have fertile eggs. I mainly want to incubate so I can try to duplicate my double yokers. I order pullets from McMurray hatchery. only occasionally do I get a run that has them. I have 3 hens right now won't get off the nests, they have been that way since april. I am almost surprised they haven't starved to death.

 

[Clay Valley Farmer]

As posted above with more info, it does sound like a lack of humidity at the end is causing problems. Often a dish of water is just not enough and you need something like a sponge or rag with more surface area to get the water vapour into the air.

The key is going to be finding some way to monitor conditions in the incubator, without that you are really shooting in the dark.

Also if you are bringing in a roo for breeding it may take a couple weeks before you get maximum fertility. Not sure if you are trying to hatch double yokers, that may be cutting down hatch rates too.

Those hens that are broody for months are not doing them selves any good, likely worth trying to break them or give them something to hatch so they just don't sit there and starve for no good.