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You are on a roll today!
Humidity has a wide range of error. The numbers are 25% to 55% for incubation. Regardless of your experience, it is dangerous to tell people that it is good to hatch at less than 25% humidity.
I hope everyone has a great Hatch!
lol.. and the text book 25 to 55% humidity would give me DEAD chicks!.. So as I said before.. And I will stick to
People need to monitor THEIR eggs in THEIR incubator and see what those particular eggs need for that particular hatch
Not every hatch will be the same.. it's a very individual thing.. and if the text book 25 to 55% worked every time there wouldn't be so many drowned, sticky, bloated chicks!
Having worked for commercial hatcheries I can state with absolute knowledge that those figures quoted is for the commercial industry where incubators and hatchers are in climate controlled buildings.. since not all of us have commercial facilities and climate controlled buildings.. we must do as the eggs command!...
For me and many others it's going dry regardless of what the textbook humidity calls for!.. so if it works.. don't knock it!
If YOU (meaning whoever uses the 25 to 55%) have great success at 25 to 55% then that's great cause it works for you.. however it does not work for me and for many others.. like I said.. it's an individual thing!
Funny that you mention dry hatching too Yinepu.. I have accidently left eggs in the hatcher too long and boy do the eggs hatch!! Started me thinking there is MORE than one way to get chicks to hatch.
Right now I have turkey eggs in the hatcher with water in the wells, and I have a slew in the incubator with NO water. Left these because they were not externally pipped and I see air cells that should be bigger. Hard to view during daylight hours, but perhaps these are quitters, not sure. WIll candle again tonight when darkness has set in.
lol.. yeah.. funny how that worked out.. huh...
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could be several reasons why they failed to hatch.. bacterial infection can cause death in the last few days.. so can carbon dioxide poisoning.. or even lethal genes... diet of the parent stock lacking in vital nutrients... temp fluctuations.. the list goes on...
While we're in the anxiety of waiting . . .
Here is what I had for breakfast--
olive oil in a small fry pan, with 1 snipped scallion, 1 oz chream chees cut into bits, 5 eggs from chickens and turkeys, and slowly carefully scramble leaving a few unbroken yolks. Sprinkle with 1/2 tsp salt.
Eating this good food with out an over dose of breads and cakes allows me to heavily dose all my food with salt liberally. Yum.. TOmorrow I will have this again but with butter, or tonight.
How do you eat your eggs???
ooh.. so many ways it's hard to list them all... but that sounds good!
