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Boy I hope not. I might just buy a box of sterile gloves and try those. Or would something in those harm them? Going to have to try some things out I guess.

I use hand sanitizer before I candle. I feel like I would touch too much in between the bathroom and my incubators. Now I’m wondering… Does hand sanitizer hurt the embryos?

@BantyChooks I wondered if going from such a low incubation humidity to a high hatch humidity would mess with the chicks. To me it makes sense. But I’m not an expert by any means. I will give it a try. I make sure to bleach and wash my incubators in between hatches. Is the bleach okay to use...

@BantyChooks I’ll have to give that a try. I hadn’t heard about that and am now thinking my hatch humidity might be too high. My bantam hatches are never good, 50% if that, and my standard hatches are somewhere around 60-70%. Definitely going to give the 40-45% a try though. @FuzzyOwlFeet you...

I switched to dry hatching after I was having the same issues in my farm innovators incubator. The fan had stopped working in mine so I let the humidity get down to 20%. I never added water and let the humidity in the room do all the work. Increased my shipped egg count by so much. That...