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Wow!!! thats amazing, the manual says should be kept about 45% through day 18 , as a matter of fact it has an alarm that is factory set to beep at 44%.hate to say, but it looks like your humidity #s are way too high. eggs need to lose moisture steadily so the chick has room to grow. the higher humidity is most critical only when hatching.
I incubate all my eggs between 5 and 15% normally, though with the rainy weather it's closer to 20% right now. then at hatching with the lower humidity i'll up it only on day 19 or 20 to 45-65% depending what the incubation humidity was usually. right now tho, whith the higher humidities, I'm actually dry HATCHING too for some varieties (dorking seems to like drier, cochin and sfh like a little higher, at least for me)
So I am going to start over with a new attempt at 5-15% as you say, need to say they are silkie eggs and my incubator has fan.
Thanks a lot, just one more thing what do you think about temperature?