So today when I left for work at around 5am I opened my incubator and forgot to close it completely well today when I got back at around 3pm checked my incabator and the humidity levels were down to 16%, my question is should I just trhow all my eggs away and start over or should I wait and see what happens? Today it's day 9 for them.
16% humidity, are my chicks all dead?
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Keep on with it. Low humidity just makes the air cell bigger, but I think it shouldn't bother them all that much, it was only a day or so. Lots of people do dry incubation and only bump up the humidity at lockdown. Don't panic!
Hi there, I'm not an expert but I would think over a relatively short period of time that temp may be more important than humidity. Was the temperature down by much?
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This is my story..........had company I hand turn my eggs in a rush for the afternoon turn and forgot to plug the incubator back in so when I go to bed I turn the eggs again and discovered it temp down to 73 eggs at 15 days aghhhh well they are hatching today 2 turkeys came early and the Marans eggs are pipping just like nothing happened and I too was wanting to cry
Never stop incubation until you are positive nothing is growing anymore when candling. Eggs don't go bad that quickly, so you have time to make sure they are OK. I think you will be OK, since they are still quite young. Good luck and let us know how it goes.
Keep em going! On day 13 of my hatch I came home from work and my humidity was at 13% and I still had a 100% hatch! It should be okay!
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HECTOR,
For a short period of time like what you describe here they should be fine, but if you are cooking gamebird eggs in there you definately want the humidity back up as soon as possible...
For a short period of time like what you describe here they should be fine, but if you are cooking gamebird eggs in there you definately want the humidity back up as soon as possible...
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