how low can the humidity be

[stephanie1992]

how low can it be for the 1st 18 days?

 

[Countrypunk92]

depends, people incubate at different humidity.

 

[wolftracks]

stephanie I do dry hatching, so it can be pretty low.

Chookschick has a cheatsheet for dry hatch and it's good.

I don't add any water until day 18

 

[cmom]

I think most people try to keep the humidity at least 35% for the first 18 days. Personally I keep mine around 40% to 50%. Right now even with all of the vents open it is 45%. When I set my eggs in lockdown on day 18 then I raise the humidity around 65% to 70%. If it goes a little higher, I don't worry.

 

[Illia]

Differs among people. I used to think 35% was way too low, then after many seriously horrible hatch-rates (lots of dead, unborn chicks) I realized my humidity was much too high, dropped it to 35% through most of the incubation process, and now I get 100% hatch rate every time.

 

[wrestling_mom]

I have mine at about 22 percent right now.

 

[Barbedwirecat]

I like 30-35% Chicks hatched wonderfully.

 

[mstricer]

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That's too low, it shouldn't go below 25. If you are dry hatching.

 

[KandiandJerry]

I keep mine between 45-50% and then raise it on day 18 to 65% but it really depends on the person. but I definately would not go below 25 that seems to low

 

[wrestling_mom]

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That's too low, it shouldn't go below 25. If you are dry hatching.

Day 15 and alive and kicking