High Humidity Please Help

[MrsChicky55]

They're adorable! That's not a bad hatch for shipped eggs.

The sticky chicks I've had I hold right under the faucet with warm water. I keep water away from their heads but everything from the neck down gets rinsed until completely clean. The head I do with a wet sponge. Then towel dry and back into the incubator till dry.

I should have tried a sponge or washcloth, just used my hands and it wasn't as effective.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Congrats on the cuties!!
and Silkies are notoriously bad hatchers, especially if they have a vault
you did a great job!!!!

 

[MrsChicky55]

Congrats on the cuties!!
and Silkies are notoriously bad hatchers, especially if they have a vault
you did a great job!!!!

Thanks to you and everybody else who held my hand through this! Thanks for the education. I know next time things will go better from the get go purely because I learned so much from this experience. And I'm hoping to hatch lots of chicks in the future in order to show. So thank you very much to everyone. It was much appreciated!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

you are so welcome!! we are here to help!
without this site i would have been lost and killed many more eggs than i originally did (oops!)
Keep on trying! Cant learn more if you dont keep trying, good luck!!

 

[WVduckchick]

you are so welcome!! we are here to help!
without this site i would have been lost and killed many more eggs than i originally did (oops!)
Keep on trying! Cant learn more if you dont keep trying, good luck!!

x2! I figure a large percentage of folks on this site came here after ruining a few eggs.
(its definitely what happened to me! lol)

just for kicks, I'll tell this long story in abbreviated fashion. My sister-in-law gave me some of her "extra" roosters and drakes. Once I fell in love with them, I decided I wanted them to have some mates. So I started looking at incubators. Found one on my local CL with eggs included, already on day 12! Well, heck, I only had to wait 9 days, right!?!!? Wrong. I screwed up the humidity and killed every last one of them. Then I ended up here. Now I have... um... somewhere upwards of 100... 150?....

 

[MrsChicky55]

x2! I figure a large percentage of folks on this site came here after ruining a few eggs.
(its definitely what happened to me! lol)

just for kicks, I'll tell this long story in abbreviated fashion. My sister-in-law gave me some of her "extra" roosters and drakes. Once I fell in love with them, I decided I wanted them to have some mates. So I started looking at incubators. Found one on my local CL with eggs included, already on day 12! Well, heck, I only had to wait 9 days, right!?!!? Wrong. I screwed up the humidity and killed every last one of them. Then I ended up here. Now I have... um... somewhere upwards of 100... 150?....

LOL! That’s a riot! Actually that’s really sad, but your chicken math is a riot!

 

[MrsChicky55]

you are so welcome!! we are here to help!
without this site i would have been lost and killed many more eggs than i originally did (oops!)
Keep on trying! Cant learn more if you dont keep trying, good luck!!

Oh I will keep trying, now I just need to buy my own incubator! Merry Christmas to me!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Oh I will keep trying, now I just need to buy my own incubator! Merry Christmas to me!

sounds perfect!!!