Is my humidity too high for lockdown?

[minihorse927]

I aim for 50-60% Have hatched as high as 65%-70% but have noticed chicks drowning at that humidity level. I am for 50-60 as a main goal. Really dry air around here to though.

 

[HHandbasket]

Our last hatch, we didn't do so well. We kept ramping up the humidity because everyone told us 70%. I had to rescue 24-hour old chicks from the incubator that were obviously drowning, and several others pipped but didn't come out. I thought they were shrink wrapped, but now that we've learned what we were doing, I realize that I had drowned my chicks.

This time, we're going to not ramp up the humidity to more than 50%-55% at lockdown. I think things will go much better this time.

 

[gavinandallison]

There are even some folk that dry incubate and seem to have no worries..........

 

[Gypsy07]

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You had 24 hour old chicks that were drowning? How did that happen? I'd have thought if they'd hatched out okay, they couldn't drown after that. What happened to them?