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21 Days and 7 hours -- only 3 birds hatched -- should I be worried?

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Guest:
Another trick to try when opening the doors on a Sportsman is, rather than pouring water on the floor (!), use a spray mister bottle filled with hot water, and mist the humidity pads and around any unhatched eggs quickly.

I do that and it helps keep the temps and humidity good after I pull out chicks that are ready to go out but still have eggs that haven\'t hatched.

Blue Egg Acres:

--- Quote from: Pathfinders ---use a spray mister bottle filled with hot water, and mist the humidity pads and around any unhatched eggs quickly.
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This is what I usually do, but it seems once I open the door I can never regain the humidity back to what it was. I\'m going to try Chris\'s suggestion and turn the water pan sideways. Also going to try putting a spare water pan with hot water in it in the bottom of the hatcher.

Chris, where did you get the magnetic thermometer?

Guest:
Barb got it at Wal-mart.
Looks like they pretty much finished hatching by this morning opened the door at noon. there were 23 live chicks 3 pipped and died  out of 31 eggs. Most were hatched in 21 days and 4 hours

John:

--- Quote ---the top center vent is open 1/2 way bottom center vent is barley cracked open. the rest are closed
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The newer GQF 1502\'s have smaller center vent holes in the back and they don\'t have the little metal doors so you can\'t adjust them.  I keep the other vents closed and they work very well.  You wouldn\'t notice them all at a glance, but there are many little improvements that have been made to the Sportsman over the past 20 years.

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