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Yesterday, I did a very quick, in place candle of the Day 11 shipped + our own eggs in the incubator; I’ll do a real, decision making candle this weekend at Day 14. I’ve been running humidity at 30-40% with an overall average of 37%. Even in our own eggs, the air cells looked big, at least like the 14 day image in the attached image, if not bigger. I did not weigh eggs. So, I’m increasing humidity. I added water slowly yesterday but wasn’t getting above 40% so just added much more water this AM and am now at 54%. I was curious on thoughts of how high to go on humidity if air cells are big?
My humidity in TX gulf coast is running st 48% for my duck eggs and were right on target at last weigh.
Somewhere in a sally sunshine thread there’s a description of this. I know “somewhere” doesn’t help much, I’ll try and search myself later. Something like 5% of humidity for every xxxx amount you’re above or below your target. I feel like a couple of us brought it up in the Easter hatch a long.
@ronott1 would you happen to know or know who we could ask? (Sorry to loop you in during the middle!) How much humidity you want to increase in the incubator when you are below your target?
@Mixed flock enthusiast are you good at math, and do you have a kitchen scale?
Normally a duck you want to lose .55% a day. You could maybe go for .45 or .40 since they’re big? You could adjust it, weigh today, and weigh the next two days to see what’s happening....