Candled eggs: how am doing?

[HenHoneyGirl]

Hello I'm a very new first timer when it comes to incubating eggs!!! I thought I was doing good so far but recently I found out I might have had my humidity too high! I had been keeping it between 50 and 60 but after learning that the eggs actually need to dry out some I've lowered it much more and it's averaging about 40-50% humidity. This evening I candled my eggs and I fear that they haven't dried out enough! Everything is developing well with a wonderful dark mass and lots of little veins.
I took a couple pictures to hopefully receive some help from other much more experienced than I.
Am I just being paranoid and everything is fine? Or do they really need to lose more moisture? And if they do how much more should I drop the humidity? My chicken eggs are at day 9 and my turkey eggs are at day 18.
Chicken egg

Bad photo but turkey

 

[Ravynscroft]

They do need to lose more moisture, but it shouldn't be too late for that so hold on to your hope!

Drop your humidity as much as you can for a while, I'm not sure exactly how much as I don't know what your ambient humidity is where you are at... we have very high humidity, so I always dry incubate and hatch (no water in the bator)...

 

[HenHoneyGirl]

Our humidity in the house fluctuates a lot because of our evap cooler but it averages about 40-50% but I will soak up all the water in there today and see what it is without water in there. I hope they'll be ok! They look like they're all doing so well besides the small air pocket! What happens if they air pocket is to small when they start hatching? Are they doomed to die or can you save them

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Our humidity in the house fluctuates a lot because of our evap cooler but it averages about 40-50% but I will soak up all the water in there today and see what it is without water in there. I hope they'll be ok! They look like they're all doing so well besides the small air pocket! What happens if they air pocket is to small when they start hatching? Are they doomed to die or can you save them

They don't look bad to me. At least the chicken eggs. I've never incubated duck. If you candle down into the air cell just a bit more it'll be easier to see. If you still feel the air cells are on the small side at lockdown, you can hatch upright in cut down cartons and improve the chances of successful hatching. For the humidity maybe this will help you: http://letsraisechickens.weebly.com...anuals-understanding-and-controlling-humidity

Good luck! I hope to see you get many hatchers!!