➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[FortCluck]

Yes. I've had much better success with around 30% humidity, letting it get up to 40-50% during pipping and hatching.

I hatch all my eggs at 20% and I don't go up during external pipping. I live in a very humid area so I think that's how I can do it like this. My ducks, chickens, and quail all like it the same.

 

[Nabiki]

I hatch all my eggs at 20% and I don't go up during external pipping. I live in a very humid area so I think that's how I can do it like this. My ducks, chickens, and quail all like it the same.

I live in a pretty dry area, so that makes sense. I also try to open the incubator as little as possible once pipping has started. I will open it to take chicks out, but I will do so as quickly as possible and will usually add a pipette of water on a paper towel to bring humidity back up fast. Otherwise I end up with shrink wrapped chicks that need help. Humidity will drop to 10% almost immediately when I open the incubator.

 

[FortCluck]

I live in a pretty dry area, so that makes sense. I also try to open the incubator as little as possible once pipping has started. I will open it to take chicks out, but I will do so as quickly as possible and will usually add a pipette of water on a paper towel to bring humidity back up fast. Otherwise I end up with shrink wrapped chicks that need help. Humidity will drop to 10% almost immediately when I open the incubator.

Oh wow. Mine barely drops. Our house is humid and we even have central air

 

[R2elk]

Oh wow. Mine barely drops. Our house is humid and we even have central air

If your ambient humidity is 60% (not uncommon where you live), it is doubtful that your incubator is running below 30% humidity during incubation without adding any water during the incubation phase.

 

[danalovesdogs]

7 out!
The rest need to hurry the heck up

 

[FortCluck]

If your ambient humidity is 60% (not uncommon where you live), it is doubtful that your incubator is running below 30% humidity during incubation without adding any water during the incubation phase.

It's 20-28% completely dry with a calibrated hygrometer. Kiki taught me how to incubate after my first hatch last year with chickens went wrong by adding water. I got condensation and 9 chicks DIS.

 

[R2elk]

It's 20-28% completely dry with a calibrated hygrometer. Kiki taught me how to incubate after my first hatch last year with chickens went wrong by adding water. I got condensation and 9 chicks DIS.

The problem is that you are calibrating at 75% humidity. This does not guarantee accuracy across the whole range. There are other salts that allow a person to calibrate in the range that they are working with. You can use magnesium chloride to calibrate at 33% humidity. Magnesium chloride can often be found sold as ice melt.
Saturated Salt Solutions and Humidity

 

[Nabiki]

@Kiki I have a yeller!
Two tibetans so far too.

 

[Nabiki]

We'll see if this one survives. It has buggy eyes.

 

[Kiki]

@Kiki I have a yeller!
Two tibetans so far too.
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