Is Dry Hatching really a thing?!

[soxirella]

It's day 19 and a couple have pipped. Hope they all come out well.

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[Susan Skylark]

I love dry hatching with quail, they seem to just pop out of the shell and are pretty vigorous at hatch, my little bubble incubator is a nightmare to control humidity on, it’s either 10 or 80%, and I have hatched successfully at both extremes, usually I just add a little water occasionally so it averages 30-40% but no biggie if it spikes or plummets briefly. Anecdotally I was running a dry hatch in my emergency back up incubator (main one died on day 7, wouldn’t get above 98) and I cracked 6/30 eggs as the floor was sloped and they’d roll into each other, the shells seemed pretty brittle on a dry dry hatch as compared to that 40 percent average, maybe it makes hatching easier? But certainly wasn’t a good combo with the emergency incubator (now back to emergency status!).

 

[soxirella]

The first chick just hatched some time back

 

[soxirella]

On day 21, I put a camera inside the incubator. Here is one of the highlights!

 

[soxirella]

The last chicken in the current batch has hatched and thanks to all of you who shared your two cents and all the praises and thanks to God.

I started with 32 - six were infertile. I discarded one by Day 14, unlike eight in my first attempt. Finally, off the remaining 25, 21 hatched. I had to help the last two though.