Brandysgirls
Chirping
- May 15, 2020
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6 ago I had hatch day for some silkies will all of them ended up dying in the egg and when I opened them up they were so sticky and there was a lot of sticky fluid in the eggs and most of them were upside down.. I know my issue was too high humidity.I just started incubating 3 months ago and the same thing happened to the first batch I tried to hatch so I finally found that if I had a teaspoon of water every other day and let it run a few hours at about 45% humidity then let the water completely run out and don't add any more until the day after that I had 100% hatch rate doing it that way!this is my problem so for some reason I added a teaspoon of water every morning with this batch and it was way too much humidity so they all drowned because I couldn't spin or do anything in the egg. I have another batch that were in a different incubator which is a 360 that goes on lockdown today.I have to 360's ...1 set was in one and one set was in the other..I was also adding a teaspoon of water every morning to this set that goes on lockdown today. For the past six days I have not added any water at all and the humidity has been running about 37.. my question is do I still need to get the humidity up to 60 or 65 for lockdown? Can I just keep running it through dry? I'm really worried that the last 6 days wasn't enough to allow them to lose the amount of moisture they need?but I'm also worried that if I don't up the humidity to 65 for lockdown that that could cause an issue to. So I guess I'm looking for somebody to tell me what they think I should do please!!!! Do I add water for lockdown or do I not or can I just put it in one reservoir and just get it up to maybe 50? I'm scared that the six days without adding water did not counteract the 12 days of adding too much water