Bator humidity WAY to high! Help!

[aart]

I honestly have such a hard time keeping the temp with this incubator

When I went to get it out it was at almost 45 c.

I'm confused by what this means.
Was it 45 degrees Fahrenheit?

 

[FloDoe]

Celsius

 

[Tiana's chickens]

When the humidity gets too high, try leaving the lid open a tiny bit. For my first hatch of chicks I made an incubator out of an electric frying pan, as you can imagine, the temperature and humidity fluctuated greatly. Day before hatch mum texted me while I was at school saying the humidity was 99%!!! Also I'd wake up some mornings to find the temperature 42c+ all night long! All this effected my hatch rates but the strongest were still able to hatched

 

[FloDoe]

I was happy to see them still moving inside, can someone tell me what happens after the first pip and should I worry about my chicks drowning due to my humidity being high during the first half of incubation? How would I know?

 

[Emmaxx]

I was happy to see them still moving inside, can someone tell me what happens after the first pip and should I worry about my chicks drowning due to my humidity being high during the first half of incubation? How would I know?

As JaeG said it's the average humidity through the incubation that counts really so that early high period shouldn't put them at risk of drowning if they have lost enough moisture (air sack is big enough) by now. When you put them into lockdown candle them to check the size of the air cell and check it against the chart they provided.
When you notice the first pip you need to just be patient, but that is very hard to do, especially when they keep stopping and starting to tease you!
If when you candle them the air cells look massively out do update as someone can advise you what to do

 

[FloDoe]

Well I will say my aircells do look a little smaller then the chart advises but I am incubating silkie eggs is there anything I can do the next five days?

 

[FloDoe]

They look more like between 7-14 and I’m on day 16.

 

[Emmaxx]

Thy could still lose enough in the next 5 days i suppose. What is your humidity at now and is it steady? I am not familiar with incubating chicken eggs let alone silkies so I'm not sure what would be safe for them, but maybe wetting the eggs a little would help draw some moisture out, or maybe you could leave lockdown for an extra day, so day 19 instead of 18? part of the reason for lockdown is to keep humidity high so Im sure it wouldn't hurt as you dont want it too high too soon, but maybe still stop turning them on day 18?
Also, can I just check you're counting your days right? so many people forget to count day 0 when they first start hatching. Did you count day 1 as the day you set the eggs or 24 hours after you set them?

 

[aart]

Celsius

Chances are they're cooked then.
Were they in a closed car?

 

[FloDoe]

I counted from the day I set them in the incubator. Right now I have the incubator lid cracked and the humidity is sitting at 35% but my temp is struggling between 38 Celsius and 39.2 Celsius. Today is hot so I’m guessing that’s why it’s struggle bussing to stay at 38 Celsius. Can I crank the humidity up when I get my first pip or does it need to be up before that?