Incubating Bantum Eggs

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Good Morning, I am currently incubating by booted Bantums eggs. They are tiny... These are pictures of Momma and Papa. I am on day 16 and all the eggs are growing :) . so far so good. I'm a newbie at incubation and have been reading up. I have read the Bantums will hatch two days sooner because they are smaller than a typical egg. They have been kept at 99.5 degrees with 52% humidity. I know that 3 days prior you are supposed to stop turning the eggs and increase the humidity to about 75% and open the fresh air vent. But what I'm not sure of is what day should I do that since the eggs are smaller?? Normally it would be at 19 days ( 3 days before a 21 day cycle) but should it be at 17 days since they are smaller eggs? Has anyone had experience with incubating Bantum Eggs and what were you successful with? Also, the pictures below are of when they were younger. They are full grown but still small bantums. Thank you!

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Sometimes bantams will hatch early, it's not uncommon. Putting them on lockdown a day early should be plenty. I usually increase the humidity to about 65-70% for lockdown, once the chicks start hatching the humidty will spike so you don't really want to start with it too high.
 
I'm happy to say we had a successful hatch! we had 5 out of 7 hatch and they are as cute as can be. Of course now as luck would have it the Momma has become broody and is sitting on a nest of eggs . :) . So we should hopefully have a lot of chicks this spring.


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Sometimes bantams will hatch early, it's not uncommon. Putting them on lockdown a day early should be plenty. I usually increase the humidity to about 65-70% for lockdown, once the chicks start hatching the humidty will spike so you don't really want to start with it too high.
Thank you so much. I had an issue keeping the humidity up in the last few days but since they hatched I must have done ok. :)
 

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