14-18% weight loss on Day 18 - able to correct?

[williamsl77]

Bunch of eggs due to hatch on Sunday. Weighed them today as I put them in lockdown. They have all lost about 6 grams. The initial weights of the eggs ranged from 33 to 42 grams. This is about 14-18% weight loss. Is this too much? I know you can't correct this in only 3 days of lockdown, but should I really crank the humidity to prevent more weight loss?

Thanks!!

 

[williamsl77]

Any thoughts? Guess I bump the humidity up to 75%.

 

[Melissa Rose]

I would be careful bumping the humidity too high! They can drown if it is

. I dry incubate because our natural humidity is so high and I wait for a pip before I increase the humidity. I have had eggs that I thought lost too much moisture and I tried raising it really high for the last few days and I ended up losing a great deal of them. When I cracked them open to see it looked like they had drowned in the shell

 

[thebanthams]

I think my chickies died when my humidty was 71%. Really I dont know why they died. They were alive before lockdown...

Any thoughts? Guess I bump the humidity up to 75%.