Dry incubation?

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I am trying a dry incubation this go round and I am wondering if where a person lives if that has any effect on if dry incubation works or not. I have done some read on dry incubation and they say ignore humidity for the first 18 days. What if you lived in a place with little to no humidity??!
 
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Lost swear by it and I am doing a dry hatch right now. If its really dry, Add a couple tablespoons of water. Do you have a hygrometer?
 
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Lost swear by it and I am doing a dry hatch right now. If its really dry, Add a couple tablespoons of water. Do you have a hygrometer?

I have a hygrometer but when i put it in the bator it just reads "low". when it was outside the bator it was in the 20's. I calibrated it and it is 11% to low. I am in Idaho so we have some humidity here. I'm just nervous because this is only my second hatch and my 1st i didn't get any hatch so i want it to be right.
 
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Is that bad for a dry hatch??

So don't let it go down to no water. Always keep just enough in. I take advice and keep mine no higher then 40% but usually around 28-35%.
 
I am on my third hatch this season in an LG with a computer fan. We heat in the winter with a pellet stove= very low humidity. After evaluating our three hatches' outcomes, I have decided that a dry hatch is wonderful as long as the humidity doesn't go below 20%. So, I ignore the humidity unless it goes below 20%. If it does, I add water and tell myself the hen got caught in a rainstorm. The humidity goes up for a day or so ( to maybe 35-40) and then wanders down into the 20s again. By that time we have a rainstorm or the weather warms and the natural humidity keeps the incubator in the mid-20s or maybe into the mid-30s.
The cooler hatcher that DH made has a plastic tray that I put three sponges in and then drape a terry cloth fabric into the tray and up the side of the cooler , letting the lid catch the fabric and hold it up.
I fill the tray up to just below the level of the sponges. With 3 vent holes and a fan, I was delighted to find lots of air circulation and steady 65-70% humidity. I could put a hose thru a vent and add warm water to the tray without opening. We could feel the edge of the towel sticking out and find it still damp: still putting off humidity. Capping/uncapping the vent(s) controlled the humidity beautifully.
Your mileage will certainly vary depending upon your particular driving habits.
 
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That sounds good. I am aiming for 65% during this hatch lockdown. I have a Brinsea and I literally put in like a tablespoon of water to get the humidity to 40% for 3 days.
 
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Is that bad for a dry hatch??

So don't let it go down to no water. Always keep just enough in. I take advice and keep mine no higher then 40% but usually around 28-35%.

My just keeps saying "low" so i added a couple of tsp of water last night and it went to 32%. Then when I got up this moring its back to "low"!
 

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