How does a DRY HATCH work?

[007Sean]

It's 65 in my room already so I will try not adding any water at all. I read up to 80%humidity for hatching but realise that's a bit silly now.

Unfortunately, all the info from the 30's and 40's is still being posted on the web. Back in the day, most incubators were heated with kerosene lamps. This is why all the literature has 80% humidity as the norm for hatching eggs. Kerosene heat tends to drive the moisture out of the bator.

 

[HKG]

People do dry hatches because it is really easy.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

People do dry hatches because it is really easy.

Oh boy

 

[gimmie birdies]

Dry hatching is fine, but hydrate at lockdown.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I incubate in the winter here in dry Eastern Washington State, but I do have a hydrometer in the incubator, it reads 50% with no water, so I don't add any for the first 18 days. Too much water is not good in an incubator.

 

[gimmie birdies]

My last hatches
4/6- not my eggs but health food store eggs 11/30/21
from my chickens
7/8- 12/09/21
11/11- 12/21/21
12/15 - 12/31/21
2 weeks After I put down my rooster I set eggs (eggs were 2 weeks old by then)
5/12? last batch poor hatch due to old eggs.

 

[JohnTheChickenMan]

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

 

[Ebony Rose]

I do not add water to my incubator because I live in an incredibly high-humidity area. Humidity runs from 63 to 84% depending upon what month of the year it is.
I often say that it's so hot and humid here that sweating brings no relief.
Adding water to the incubator results in chicks drown in their own shells.

 

[The Moonshiner]

u are not performing a dry hatch simply because u are not adding water.

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.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

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

My bator humidity reads 10 right now.... Thats far from humid lol