Low humidity days 1-18 ??

[SundownWaterfowl]

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That is the humidity range for waterfowl eggs, not chicken eggs.

 

[cgmccary]

I notice you live in Kentucky and having done basic training in the summer time at Ft. Knox, I know you are humid too.

Like Speckel . (GA), I live in humid South (Alabama) and I can tell you from weighing my eggs & finding they weren't losing enough weight, I now run my incubator bone dry for days 1-18 and most of that time it is in the 30s & 40s range. The last three days (1-21 days), I bump it up to 70 and at hatch time, I put a humidifier by the bator and get it as high as I can. This has worked well for me with about 85% hatch rates.

 

[needtohatch]

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How do you know how much they should weigh? I saw another post asking for a link about that but no answer the last time I checked. Would love to know!

 

[Gazinga]

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That is the humidity range for waterfowl eggs, not chicken eggs.

so if i drop it down now (day 10) to 45%, will i still have a chance?

 

[Jamie821]

Gazing if it were me I would get it down to about the mid 30s you need to get some evaporation going on in those eggs