Humidity question

[Somshine]

So I've been having humidity problems that I could not figure out this hatch. I've used this incubator many times but this time every time I'd add water the humidity would go way too high. Could not figure out what was going on. So I'd let it run dry and go overnight dry here and there. Finally figured out I had something under my incubator causing it not to be level. So when I was filling the small tray it was running into the big one. So pissed it took this long to figure something so stupid out. But now at day 15 I don't think the air cells are as big as they should be. Is it okay to just let the water run dry and leave it dry until lock down?

 

[Ridgerunner]

I feel for you. Those simple things can drive you nuts. been there on too many different things.

When my humidity runs low for a while I often run it a little high to balance it out. Average humidity over the incubation is what matters, not an instantaneous humidity at one point. So if your humidity has been higher than normal during parts of the incubation I'd probably try to balance it out.

Good luck!

 

[Tex452]

I dry hatch so I don’t pay a lot of attention to my humidity, as long as it is 30% or above, I’m good with that, I have seen it as high as 50%, I do make sure my temperature is as close as possible.
When the chicks start hatching, the humidity jumps up to 80-85%.
I have really good hatches

 

[Somshine]

I dry hatch so I don’t pay a lot of attention to my humidity, as long as it is 30% or above, I’m good with that, I have seen it as high as 50%, I do make sure my temperature is as close as possible.
When the chicks start hatching, the humidity jumps up to 80-85%.
I have really good hatches

Yeah I've done a couple dry hatches. I didn't think I got as good of a hatch rate. Wasn't a whole lot different though. But I've never had an issue with the humidity being high and hard to control. I'm so mad it took me this long to figure it out. I don't even know if the 3 days until lockdown will be enough to increase the air cells. I'm wondering if I can wait to boost it until like day 19 or 20? I don't know I've never had to counteract this on basically the last week before.