This week I am going to be receiving some Silkie eggs in the mail. I am going to use my Brinsea Octagon 40 to incubate them. The manual says to have the humidity at 40-50% relative humidity. Is that correct? Or should it be a little higher? Then for hatching it says 65% or more humidity? Is that right? What are you recomendations? Also, when I recieve them how long do you reccomend letting them rest? I will receive them at around 3:30pm this saturday afternoon. I was thinking to let them rest until around 7am sunday morning. Is that fine, or too long? This is my last hatch of the season, and I really want this hatch to go great. And I think it will. I just want to make sure I have all the humidity %'s down. Thanks in advance for all your help.
I keep my incubators at about 50-55% humidity for the first 18 days and then I up it to 65-70% for the last three days. If I get shipped eggs in, I let them rest at least 8 hours. If they appear to have had a rough trip, air cells moving around, I do not turn them for a few days in the bator to let them settle even more.
