Iād look into possible causes for incubation failure besides blaming the humidity, mine is wonky and random but it still hatches fine if there isnāt some other major stress factor on the eggs. Are you using an external thermometer or three? Temp variation can definitely destroy a hatch, and no matter how cute or innocent, never believe the incubator, they are liars, all of them! Sorry, trying to be funny. If your temp is correct and steady how about the turner? Hand turning 3x daily or a good autoturner make for incubation success, a faulty turner or a turner that doesnāt fit your eggs well can cause huge issues. If those are both okay how about pre and early incubation stress on your eggs? Weāre talking shipped eggs, cold or hot weather, eggs ten days or older at incubation? Did you candle your eggs? Do you have fertility issues rather than incubator problems? Do you open dead eggs to see what might be wrong and note the day of death? High rates of Weak chicks, deformed chicks, failure to hatch, late embryonic death are often signs of early or preincubation egg stress (shipping, even a couple hours of subfreezing temps, hot weather or incubator heat spikes, faulty turning or old eggs). Look into those issues first, humidity is important but it is a secondary issue to temp, turning, and egg stress.
list for not holding humidity). Six went into lockdown but only two pipped at all and then needed assistance. Do they need a third? I have 30+ chickens, but right now these two are the only babies. Iāve always brooded 6+ at a time.
