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Schell1226
Chirping
30 or a little lower are great numbers. I wouldn’t put lockdown humidity more than 15-20% of your 1-18 humidity. I locked down at 50 sometimes it went to 54. When they hatch your humidity will jump. If you have two hatching at a time it will get into the 70’s. High humidity = trouble in my opinion. My dry hatch eggs were brittle and very easy for the chicks to zip and pop out. Dry hatch zip took 15-25 mins. Wet hatch zip took mine 30 mins to an hour.
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Since you really do not have the normal big dip I personally would let them hatch in the egg carton. Do you have the bottom rings cut out of your egg carton?
So does this sound about right?....I'm beginning day 16 in a couple hours (2pm EST) and the hum is at 31 right now. Would you recommend not adding water and just letting it drop from here on out until it gets down to 25 or so, or maybe even lower? (without water added it gets down to 10) Then keeping it at a lower hum until the end of 18. Then on day 19 bring it up to 50-55 or so?