Operation Dry Hatch

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I need help Iv hatched out some great hatches and all the sudden I can't hatch anything I'm getting chicks fully developed but not hatching out its driving me crazy
 
How dry is too dry? Our humitity usually stays around 30 percent outside. We have had some hot days and outside humidity is down to 12. Incubator humidity dropped also to 20. I was thinking anything below 30 is not good. Or should I just go by the air cell size? I will candle tonight. We are on day 14.
 
h2oratt said:
How dry is too dry? Our humitity usually stays around 30 percent outside. We have had some hot days and outside humidity is down to 12. Incubator humidity dropped also to 20. I was thinking anything below 30 is not good. Or should I just go by the air cell size? I will candle tonight. We are on day 14.
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They say go by air cell size but for me that is really hard to judge, even using the illustrations to compare to. I personally just try to keep it over 30%. It stays below 45% on its own so I think that is a good range.
 
SunHwaKwon said:
They say go by air cell size but for me that is really hard to judge, even using the illustrations to compare to. I personally just try to keep it over 30%. It stays below 45% on its own so I think that is a good range.
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Don't feel bad---I have hatched over 5700 eggs in a little over a year, never weighed a egg, never looked at air cells, only candle on day 18, But I only have a 95 to 100% hatch rate---every hatch. Maybe I should try it---might get that hatch % a little higher.
 
I used wet incubating method and killed all my pea chicks( They all died inside egg). I have a question do you think dry hatching is good for peafowl hatching egg too> I also have plastic Chinese 96 eggs incubator. Do you think I can use dry hatching method with my incubator. I do not want to use water till the end or maybe day25. Could some one give me advice please.

Thank you very much
 
I'm going to try this dry hatching for sure!
Am I right in thinking the first 18 days no lower than 25% humidity upping this on lockdown to 60-65% ?

I've always followed the brinsea "manual" on hatching also do this apply to other eggs too ie quail etc ?
 

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