Question about large air cells.

[juliechick]

I had to be away for about 3 days, during which the humidity went down to 28% in the bator. The eggs are on day 9 now and they have large air cells. Will this make a difference in the hatch? Do I need to keep the humidity a bit higher than usual now so they won't get much bigger?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ginbart]

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Your air cells will get bigger as time goes on. Don't change your humidity, what do you have it at now?

 

[juliechick]

I like to keep it in the 40's. Then on day 18 bump it up to high 50's. It's worked well in the past.

 

[ginbart]

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There you go. I think it all depends on where you live to because if I do eggs in the bator in January I am always adding water about every other day but now I only seem to have to put it in about every 4 or 5 days.

 

[kassy68]

Your eggs are fine.. I'm new to this hatching thing, but both successful hatches I did more of a dry hatch and my humidity would drop to even23% here and there.. I just added a tiny bit of water trying to stay around 30-40%.. it was a kinda dry hatch thing.. LOL But at the end I had the humidity too high so I was trying to get some out.. with all the mistakes.. my chicks all hatched but one, which had a birthdefect and was not meant to hatch obvioulsy...

so you are all good..

 

[FenDruadin]

Okay, I don't want to hijack this thread, but I've noticed with the hygrometer in there that my humidity is consistently about 50%. I live in a humid climate--should I not be putting water in the incubator? Am I going to drown my duckies? (Please keep in mind, they are ducks, so the requirement is different.)