I just have the cheap o Little Giant Still Air Incubator. My first hatch wasn't so good. But it also was that more then 1/2 the eggs weren't fertile. The next hatch we did to try again. And we did very well. The 3rd and last hatch was last years Easter Hatch Along and I can't remember how many, but it was over 30 chicks that did hatch. I set 48 but I'm down to 31. 14 of them wasn't even fertile. Then the others where quiters. I didn't really candle all of them before lock down either. I did them at 16 days because of my temp spike to 102 for a few hours. That's when I pulled the quiters, so I just figured to leave them.
But all 3 hatches I had a very hard time getting the humidity to even get to 50 until they start hatching, then its fine. Right now hovering around 42-47. All 3 wells are full of water, and I even have too large surface square tupperware bowls in there with sponges that are soaking wet, but its still not bringing it up. I give up really on the humidity, it is what it is. I do have reptile gauge in there and it always reads higher then the digital one. So that one is almost at 60%. But I just have to say a little prayer that they still hatch, because I can never get it up to 65% until they start hatching. Drives me nuts
