Hi. I just found this thread. I'm from Ashton, Idaho (about 55 miles north of Idaho Falls). I am a newbie at hatching eggs and have about 30 good ones incubating right now. I will have 4 staggered hatches. I am at 5400 elevation. Does anyone know if there are different humidity requirements at this altitude. I bought all but 8 on Ebay from breeders in Fla, Ga and Tn. I have 3 hygrometers that all read very different after calibration with the salt method (very frustrating). The air sacks are too big for the time in the incubator so I think the last hygrometer was correct and I may have been incubating at 10% instead of 40% for the first 14 days, 12 days, 10 days and 6 days (4 staggered hatches). Any suggestions for what to do now? I have increased the humidity so the one hygrometer now reads 40% instead of 10%. The other ones are reading up over 55% now (ripping hair out!!). I can see chicks bouncing around in some of the eggs and fear I have given them a shrink wrapped death sentence. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
