Humidity keeps rising

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Morning lovelies!

I am. Currently incubating 5 bantam eggs, we are on day 16 and things are well so far. However, the humidity in the incubator seems to keep rising?! I emptied the water bit by bit until there is now no water in it, and yet it's still reading 74%! I bought the thermometer separately so it's not with the incubator but we tested it out a fair few times before we started to make sure it worked properly. There's condensation in the incubator sides. What should I do?

Thank you in advance for any help and advice :)
 
There is not a lot you can do other than open lid, wipe troughs dry and wait. Bantam eggs can hatch day 19 so you can only run dry to day 18 or you see eggs moving then up the humidity for hatch.

The depth of water in your incubator only makes for more time before the water completely evaporates. Depth does not change humidity, surface area does. If you filled all reservoirs with half inch of water or one millimeter the humidity would be the same.
 
Make sure none of your vents are clogged or blocked and that you don't have the plugs in the top. If they were set super fresh and are bantam eggs and you had the temperature too high, maybe they're pipping internally. The chicks themselves will raise humidity when they start pipping.
 
Make sure none of your vents are clogged or blocked and that you don't have the plugs in the top. If they were set super fresh and are bantam eggs and you had the temperature too high, maybe they're pipping internally. The chicks themselves will raise humidity when they start pipping.

Ah really? Someone else mentioned that bantam eggs can hatch from day 19, does that mean I need to put them on lockdown early? Two of the eggs were put in 2 days after my main batch so they're obviously a little behind, would it affect them going into lockdown? I lost my first batch so really want this to work!!
 
I would lockdown early rather than have some hatch in a turner. After day 14, you're pretty okay with laying them down. Everyone says day 18, I personally do day 17. Of course, I also wouldn't worry about high humidity that close to hatch, either. But, I don't dry hatch, and I know that most everyone here does, so there's that...
 
I would lockdown early rather than have some hatch in a turner. After day 14, you're pretty okay with laying them down. Everyone says day 18, I personally do day 17. Of course, I also wouldn't worry about high humidity that close to hatch, either. But, I don't dry hatch, and I know that most everyone here does, so there's that...

I have No idea what dry hatching even is! Ha, got an idea though. So, do you think the other 2 eggs that are a couple days behind, will be alright to go into lockdown with the ones due to hatch soon? Just candled them all and they're all alive and active!!! Feeling very hopeful!! :celebrate
 

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