Had anyone had success with dry incubation for quail? Just had a bad hatch due to too high humidity (I think). Out of three eggs only one made it. One was a breach and died and one died in mid zip.
My humidity was 65-71% the whole time but the paper towel under the last egg got soaked. :(
I wasn't really worried about the eggs but they moved my temp probe which can make the temp in the incubator too high. It's a still air incubator so if the temp probe thing gets kicked in a far corner the eggs in the middle of the incubator will get way too hot. I had it get to 105 degrees...
How high humidity at lock down is too high? Last time I hatched Coturnix eggs my humidity was 65% but then it jump to 75% I thought it was too high but my last egg died hatching because the membrane was all leathery.
I had to take the chicks out of the incubator right away because they were...