I'm glad I'm not the only one who's mind is completely blown when they candle their eggs. I had to pick my jaw off the floor a few times, it's breathtaking. We saw a chicks head tonight, it'll be the last time we candle because they're hatching next weekend.
On my first hatch I candled every 3 days. My second hatch I'm doing now, I've only candled twice and they're 9 days away from hatching. I candled mainly just to take out infertile ones.
64% is not on the low side for me, but I'm on the east coast. When I was hatching chicks for the Halloween hatch a long, I decided that I was going to increase my humidity to 60%. When I started getting external pips my humidity went up over 80% and condensation was all over my lid :barnieI...