Humidity question

[PaigeWells]

Yes, sorry- I should have said that- the hole is in case they haven’t dried out enough in time. I haven’t had any drown, I have helped 3 shrink wrapped with a success rate of 1of 3 (2 died within a day). I personally will help to the best of my ability, (which isn’t all that, but…) and if they still die, I’m sad, but I figure they would have died anyway if I hadn’t tried. Also, someone on here mentioned after you decide any unhatched ones are “done” and you are turning off the incubator, it’s a smart idea to put the unhatched into ziplocks, and if you have the stomach for it, go ahead and crack them and see what’s inside. They are dead, it’s been several days beyond hatch date, the rest have hatched, no signs of life when candling. But you can learn from seeing what was going on and give you a better chance next time. And having them in bags (duh- great idea) makes it a lot less yucky.

 

[McChooky]

Using the dry hatch method I set 14 eggs on the 28th of Feb.and 9 hatched.I removed an infertile egg on the 10th after candling them. (another one was 'questionable' but I saw no blood ring so I left it)
5 brown eggs and 4 white hatched.I only have 4 white eggs that didn't hatch and one of those was 'questionable'. Adding water on day 18-21 might have saved the others.I lowered the temp to 98.5 the last 4 days(all of them are legbar X welsummer or brown leghorn crosses)

 

[McChooky]

Yeah I really feel like not adding any water until I absolutely have to is the way to go.

If you aren't careful adding water will drown them.They've had too much already thats the problem.

 

[Somshine]

If you aren't careful adding water will drown them.They've had too much already thats the problem.

That's what I was planning on doing I just wasn't sure when I needed to for hatch.

 

[Somshine]

I don’t never add any, I have great hatches and lively chicks.
I wouldn’t even attempt to change by adding water when the dry hatch method works so good, plus clean up is a lot easier without any bad smells whatsoever.

You don't even add any at lockdown?

 

[Tex452]

You don't even add any at lockdown?

I don’t add any water at lockdown.

 

[McChooky]

That's what I was planning on doing I just wasn't sure when I needed to for hatch.

I didn't add any water thruout the hatch and all my brown eggs hatched.Half the white ones hatched too .I didn't need more than 9 chicks so the 4 that didn't hatch are no loss.They didn't externally pip

 

[Somshine]

Well it's hatch day. I've got five or six externally pipped. I ran it dry until late last night (early this am). Quickly candled a few on day 18 while taking the turner out and putting the pad down. The air cells looked a lot better but not quite where I wanted them to be. So I ran it dry right up until early this morning. We shall see! Thanks guys! Out of the 22 I had three that never did anything. Maybe not fertilized? The other 19 have looked good so far other than air cells. Of the few I checked when I took the turner out some looked where they should be some still looked a little small. So I just figured I'd bump the humidity some at the very last minute.

 

[Tex452]

I candled 74 eggs last night, 56 of them have a chick in them, the rest either weren’t fertile or were too old because I got them from different people, we will see how many I will hatch out.

 

[Somshine]

First one out looks like a vulture