DRY HATCH

[KEarthman]

Has anyone done a dry hatch with a Kebonnixs 12 egg incubator?

 

[FC16]

I’m not sure which incubator that is but I do have a 12 egg incubator. In my first hatch with it I kept the humidity at around 50-55% and got a poor hatch rate. I changed the humidity to around 30-40% and got so much better results. I suppose that isn’t completely dry as I did add some water but it helped.
So I’m guessing a dry hatch would be completely fine in that type of incubator

 

[JohnTheChickenMan]

I think it would be helpful if people would quit using the term "dry hatching" i don't know about every type of egg out there but i do know chicken eggs. AND THEY REQUIRE HUMIDITY to hatch properly! Perhaps it would be better to tell people u have ur incubator in a very humid area and it doesn't require u to add extra water to the humidity pan.... but u are not performing a dry hatch simply because u are not adding water. U "dry hatchers" out there please post a humidity reading from ur incubator or at least from the room ur incubator is operating in bcuz i asure u that ur eggs cannot hatch in a zero percent humidity environment for 21 days at 99.5-100 degrees.
I know that u "dry hatchers" are getting by with very humid climates but some readers may take ur "dry hatch" comments literally

 

[KEarthman]

The method and terms of "Dry Incubation" and "Dry Hatch" were a thing long before we came into chickens. If you read up on it, it is not without humidity. It still uses the 99.5 degree temp. You just don't put water in the incubator until lockdown. Days 1-18 the humidity is between 20-40%. At Lockdown, you then add water to raise the humidity. We do 65% at lockdown and it has worked well.