Humidity

[Morgan87]

My eggs are on day 15, I was wondering if 50-55% humidity is bad?

They have been between 35-45% but we have been having storms the past 2 days and the humidity has gone up.
they were at 50% yesterday and today they went to 55%. I don't have anything inside like a jar or anything and
the things on the bottom don't have water in them.

 

[Ilovemyduckies]

They should be fine

 

[Morgan87]

Ok cool Thanks!

 

[bj taylor]

for somebody who knows nothing about incubating eggs - why does humidity matter?
i think i would love to hatch some eggs in some future date - it's a mysterious process -especially the humidity issue.

 

[Morgan87]

Humidity matters because the eggs have to lose a certain amount of water before they hatch, if they don't lose enough and they start to hatch they could drown, if they lose too much the membrane becomes too dried out and can suffocate the chick before it gets out of the egg. (This is what I was told anyway)

I thought this was a good site for info -
http://www.brinsea.com/customerservice/humidity.html

 

[bj taylor]

thank you & thanks for the site.