Read a post on dry hatch, tryed it, what kind of luck have you had?

[JewellFarm]

We are doing low humidity this time in our incubator as well. We had 4 in last month with the whole humidity set at xy and none of them hatched. My DH the inquisitive person that he is has to check and see if he can figure out what happens to them, and he said he thought the humidity was too high. Looks as if they drowned.

This time around they are all looking great so far and humidity is staying in the 30's range. I think we are onto something here, so we shall see in about 10 more days.

 

[addicted2chicks]

I am on my first try with incubating. I was trying so hard to get my temps up to at least 50 before getting my eggs in as it was in the 30's. So I did some reading and decided to do the dry hatch method and once I put my eggs in the humidity went up to 50%. I just grabbed out my sponges and am going to try and get the humidity to come back down to the 30's and will worry about a sponge on day 18. Seems alot are having good luck with dry hatching. We have humidity here so I am guessing the dry hatch would be better so not to drown the chicks. We will see.

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

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You'll still want to increase the humidity after Day 18. This keeps the membrane soft, pliable and easily torn by the peep.

It helps to think of the process as two distinct phases.
Days 1-18, you're trying to get the egg to lose ~12% of its weight so the air cell will be of adequate size and the peep won't drown in fluid when it pips into the air cell.

Days 19-21, you need to boost humidity here. When peeps drown, I don't believe it's related at all to having too much humidity at this stage, but rather from having had too much in the first 18 days and not having lost enough water.

Good luck on your hatch!