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They can go directly into the incubator with the turner turned off for the first 24 hours.
Also you need to google "Dry hatch method" and look for articles on this method for difficult to hatch breeds - it works MUCH better for Swedish Flowers than other methods.
Okay good to hear, I wanted to try and get them started as soon as possible since it's likely been a few days since they were laid.
My first batch of eggs (local) I didn't add any water to the incubator because it's very humid were I live. Room humidity rarely drops below 55% in the summer. Even without water my humidity levels were 45%-65% until a couple days before lockdown when it dipped to 25% at one point. I added a little water at lockdown and it ended up around 65%. At hatch I only had two eggs out of 10 that looked like they might have lost too much moisture because they had enormous air cells and didn't pip.
This time around I will probably leave out the water until lockdown again, but I will log average weight to make sure I'm on the right track.
About half with detached aircells though, so I'll leave them big end up in a carton for 48 hours before I reevaluate and start turning.
, and maybe more hatching every day, 
is it possible that the pattern, which is a perfect camouflage pattern for winter in snowy areas, is coming out in the birds in North America that are being raised and bred in areas that are a tad cooler in the winter , (i.e. Actual Snow on the ground )than the original imports were over in Florida? ( I thought I read that Sweden did not send any birds with this pattern to the states) . Could the red muting gene that causes this be triggered by snow in the birds environment? 
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