How does a DRY HATCH work?

[WVduckchick]

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

Folks aren’t going to change lingo just to suit you. It’s on you to understand what the lingo actually means. Eggs contain moisture, so zero humidity could likely never be achieved. But the incubator floor can still be dry.

Kinda like “lockdown”. Some folks take “lockdown” to mean absolutely zero opening of the incubator lid during the final 3 days. Lockdown, to me, is the days to increase humidity and the chicks hatch. But the term has been around and will stay around. Kind of the point of threads like this!
Research everything!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I believe this is exactly what I'm doing and why it's called a dry hatch. No water means dry, right?
Where is the confusion? Why are you relating the term to having no humidity? No one's calling it zero humidity hatching.

Don't worry Shiner. I don't think anyone that uses ur an u and bcuz while trying to educate experienced hatchers on what lingo we should be using is going to be taken very seriously

 

[littlechickenmama17]

Folks aren’t going to change lingo just to suit you. It’s on you to understand what the lingo actually means. Eggs contain moisture, so zero humidity could likely never be achieved. But the incubator floor can still be dry.

Kinda like “lockdown”. Some folks take “lockdown” to mean absolutely zero opening of the incubator lid during the final 3 days. Lockdown, to me, is the days to increase humidity and the chicks hatch. But the term has been around and will stay around. Kind of the point of threads like this!
Research everything!

Amen. Dry hatch, to me, is a means to decrease your humidity to reduce the chance of shrink-wrapping chicks/poultry. Also, it is easier to keep my humidity at a reliable % compared to wet hatch humidity %.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Amen. Dry hatch, to me, is a means to decrease your humidity to reduce the chance of shrink-wrapping chicks/poultry. Also, it is easier to keep my humidity at a reliable % compared to wet hatch humidity %.

Well I don't see how reducing humidity would reduce shrink wrapping. I think shrink wrapping happens when the eggs loose too much moisture from being incubated at too low humidity.

Dry hatching simply means to me that you are not adding water to the floor of your incubator because the conditions in your climate, the type of incubator you use and or the room you are incubating in does not require you to add water to bring the humidity up to a suitable level.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

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

Its called dry because the water wells ain't wet for most of the incubation period.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I am seeing a lot of talk about "easy". Well the easiest way to hatch is under a broody hen. Give her a safe place, food and water and she does all the work.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I am seeing a lot of talk about "easy". Well the easiest way to hatch is under a broody hen. Give her a safe place, food and water and she does all the work.

Clearly you haven't met my girls. They demand pamering or they'll quit.

Kidding kinda. Usually proven broodies are definately the easiest way to at least hatch, if not rear chicks too

 

[Painted Calls]

Clearly you haven't met my girls. They demand pamering or they'll quit.

Kidding kinda. Usually proven broodies are definately the easiest way to at least hatch, if not rear chicks too

If we're talking about chickens.

*Glares in Call Duck*

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Folks aren’t going to change lingo just to suit you. It’s on you to understand what the lingo actually means.

Co-sign.

 

[ColtHandorf]

If we're talking about chickens.

*Glares in Call Duck*

Yours just started laying! You can't expect them to be broody already?! Besides, let the incubus of viral plague incubate them. Then she'll be good for something besides staring into my soul.