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May 29, 2016
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Hello. My husband and I are just starting our small chicken farm. We just hatched our first batch of eggs under our broody hens last week. Chicks are doing great. We bought an incubator and are using it for the first time. I keep reading different things about dry hatching and some say keep the humidity at a certain level. This is confusing and I don't want to have a bad hatch rate. Any help would be appreciated. BTW I love reading all the helpful tips and seeing all of the pictures.
 
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I have an incubator but i have not tried using it yet. I was also thinking of using the dry incubation method as humidity levels here are pretty high at the moment. Love to see some pics of your chicks!
 
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I use the so called..dry hatch..that doesn't mean, completely dry. Keep the humidity around low to mid 30's during incubation.
Lock down, in the high to low 50's. This is what I do, and since you mentioned you like photos..here is what I hatched last week.

Little silkies.



One was in a cup with little booties on it's feet..to straighten out toes. Walking around just fine
now. :)
 
Hi and welcome to BYC - nice to have you join us. The "Hatch-a-long" and "incubating and hatching eggs" forums should be a good starting place for any questions that may have.

Best wishes
CT
 

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