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Good morning everyone and Happy Mother's day to the Moms!
@junior67 You're in a safe range in both humidity and temperature and as David mentioned sometimes humidity can spike during the hatch, sometimes even temporarily up to 80% so don't be surprised if it jumps up while the little one is hatching. It's nothing to worry about.
And so it makes more sense for you, "why" we increase humidity at lockdown is because at this point, you have a developed chick that lost the appropriate amount of weight and the only reason we're increasing humidity is to help to keep those membranes pliable once the chick makes an external pip.
I fiddled with my incubators percentages a lot over the years to find the perfect sweet spot but that's not to say that you can't still hatch chicks outside of that range. I hope I haven't given that impression I just try to take the guesswork out for others. I would give you different sweet spot numbers if you were using an IncuView for example. Sorry, I'm rambling again, lol!
I hope the hatch goes smoothly for you! Good luck!
@junior67 You're in a safe range in both humidity and temperature and as David mentioned sometimes humidity can spike during the hatch, sometimes even temporarily up to 80% so don't be surprised if it jumps up while the little one is hatching. It's nothing to worry about.
And so it makes more sense for you, "why" we increase humidity at lockdown is because at this point, you have a developed chick that lost the appropriate amount of weight and the only reason we're increasing humidity is to help to keep those membranes pliable once the chick makes an external pip.
I fiddled with my incubators percentages a lot over the years to find the perfect sweet spot but that's not to say that you can't still hatch chicks outside of that range. I hope I haven't given that impression I just try to take the guesswork out for others. I would give you different sweet spot numbers if you were using an IncuView for example. Sorry, I'm rambling again, lol!
I hope the hatch goes smoothly for you! Good luck!
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