Dry Hatch

[Partridgeguy]

So I mainly did the dry hatch method on some quail eggs. 29 to 34 percent the first 20 days. I candled at at lockdown all look decent although seemed like smaller air sacs than normal. I thought higher humidity caused this. Anyway two hatched out perfect and its been another 24 hours nothing a couple small pips when the others were hatching yesterday although nothing now. Lockdown humidity 60 percent. Any ideas.

 

[Tex452]

I do dry hatch with chicken eggs with great success, I’ve never tried quail eggs, I wish I could help.

 

[yakitori]

I never had luck with adding humidity for dry hatch lockdown. Always ended up with sticky chicks. Now I just dry hatch all the way (or add a bit of water if humidity dips below 25), but generally 30-40ish all the way has given me good results

 

[Tex452]

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I never had luck with adding humidity for dry hatch lockdown. Always ended up with sticky chicks. Now I just dry hatch all the way (or add a bit of water if humidity dips below 25), but generally 30-40ish all the way has given me good results

so far my humidity hasn’t dropped below 33% or above 55%, it usually hangs Around 40%, some of the videos I watched said as long as it doesn’t get below 15% it’s good.
Humidity jumps when the chicks start hatching.
My chicks seem to hatch very easy, and are very lively, so there’s no way I would add any water as long as this method is working.
I have two incubators full now using this method, I’m hoping for another good hatch?
I’m practicing on barnyard chickens, leghorn, RIR, black australorps Ect, all good chickens, and a lot of crosses.
We are going to start hatching Wyandottes in the future.