How important is humidity?

[Demidog]

I was reading about the dry incubation method, which seems to contradict the standard advice. So what is best?


Right now i don't have a humidity gage, so i have no idea what % it is. But i have a shallow dish with some kitchen paper soaked with water inside my homemade incubator. It's been raining and cloudy a lot here, but now it's getting hot and sunny again. Should i have less humidity when it's damp outside and more when it's hot? My eggs are on day 7, and 8 out of 10 of them are developing, the other two i can't tell because the shell is all spotty and i can't see. I can see the air sac on all of them (except the 2 spotty ones, can't see anything in them). Is there supposed to be condensation inside the incubator? I'v seen that in some hatching videos. Mine does not have any condensation, but i am also using an old cupboard as an incubator, maybe because it's bigger it doesn't have condensation??

 

[subhanalah]

You don't want condensation on the incubator, sometimes it happens when chick's hatch out and it makes the humidity too high.


I tried a semi-dry hatch, and three of the 11 that made it to lock down (the faster developing embryos) lost too much moisture during incubation, so they were shrink wrapped before their due date even. I was sad

I've had better hatches with a more midline but constant humidity throughout than low humidity in the beginning and high at the end. I'm probably not making much sense.