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agree with WalnutHill, @kwhites634
Calibration is key, high humidity and low temps = bad hatch.
I run all my bators at 100.5 to 101 until lockdown, I have cleaner hatches and you can look in the shell for proof of great incubation, you will not have any goop in the shells and the veining/membrane is clear light pink in the shell after hatch, chicks will not have any umbilical goop remaining, just the tiny string at hatch!! I decrease to 99.5 and first pip I lower to 98-99. Never look at humidity as a number, its all about weight loss in the eggs, be weighing or watching air cells, it will vary from home to home, your current climate, bator to bator, type fowl, etc. No one can tell you what humidity you need, only you know what you started with as far as weight loss, and what you have at 7 10 14 weeks!
My bator is forced but my temps end up averaging more 100ish than 99.5ish. I use a LG 9200 and you don't adjust anymore than you have to lol. I have mostly gooless eggs, my hatches generally start day 19. All the birds are healthy and strong but I have noticead that for the most part the chicks that pip early (day 19/early 20) seem to take longer to zip than the few that pip late 20 or early 21. The more "on time" pippers seem to zip within a few hours of pipping unlike the early ones that push the 18 hour mark or more.
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