humidity dropped super low during hatching, advice?

[bantambabyy]

so i did a dry hatch where the humidity was around 30% the first 18 days. then into lockdown obviously i increased it. yesterday one chick successfully hatched and last night at about 1am i checked and there was 2 pipped eggs, one had more progress because it had pipped a bit earlier but it wasnt actively hatching. at about 1am the humidity was 77% which was already too high so i decided to not add anymore water.

anyway i went to sleep and woke back up at 7am and the humidity was down to 24%, obviously meaning all the water evaporated overnight which has never happened to me. i immediately added warm water and got it back up to 70% pretty quick. now the egg that was further along hatched out perfectly fine while i was sleeping and when i first saw it, it looked very wet still and struggled to walk, now it has much more energy which makes me think the humidity only dropped a couple hours before i woke up max. also because the humidity was too high last night, there was some condensation along the bottom of the incubator which hadnt yet dried up so i feel confident in saying the humidity wasnt that low for more than 2-3 hours.

the second pipped egg hasnt made anymore progress though. and theres still 7 fertile eggs in there that havent pipped, and day 21 starts tonight. should i leave the pipped egg and hope it hatches itself or should i help it before its too late, or do you think its already too late? i dont really want to open the incubator until im positive nothing else is gonna hatch. and do you think the unpipped eggs will still be okay?

 

[Debbie292d]

I think since you're not even quite to the due date of 21 days, I'd leave them all in there and not open that up for at least one more entire day.

The one that was pipped when the humidity fell but not hatched could be shrink-wrapped in there, but the other one got out, so it could just be resting, too. At least it can breathe since it's pipped.

I'd just leave them be, get some rest, and in 24 hours if that pipped one still isn't out, and is the only one, then just assist a bit. If there are other unhatched but pipped eggs by that point, I'd gracefully sneak it out. I've done that by having a wet paper towel balled up in my hand, reach in fast and down with the lid quick, leaving the paper towel in there.