What a dissappointment!

[peruvian_princess]

YEah incubating is really dissappointing. Maybe this silkie is a hen and she can go broody for me and I wont have to worry about incubating anymore.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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Read this article about "dry incubation". I don't worry too much about the humidity unless it gets under 30% and my hatches have been around 85% for shipped eggs. I quit having fully formed chicks drowning in fluid that hasn't evaporated from the egg.

http://paraguinparadise.netfirms.com/Dry Incubation.htm

 

[MissPrissy]

I think you might have a problem with too much humidity. What is your natural humidity like in your house?

Here is an article on dry incubation in the learning center

https://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-DryIncubation.html

 

[Eggseronious]

Well you say the humidity was on 40% that is good, if it is correct! On day 19 the 4 hatched, this a bad sign of high temps. I have a thermometer that ranges from 94* to 108* thats made by Philadelphia Instruments that I use and have good hatch rates in two 1588's and when I have compared it to others they are off by at least 2.5 degrees and they are on the low side. So by that I would be running high temps if I used them. I would not try to hatch without my Philly thermometer.

 

[ezbird]

I agree with missprissy, you might need to check the humidity in the bator and inside your house.