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You could try adding a shot glass filled with water to the incubator. That adds some humidity but has a small enough surface area that it doesn't add much.

30-35% is probably about ideal. I've found that up here at higher elevations lower humidity during incubation is better, but higher at lockdown (up to 65-70%). When I lived in P-town my ideal was around 30% humidity during incubation and up to 50-60% was best at lockdown.

They might. I usually pull them as soon as I'm certain they're dead. That means that I will candle the egg for several days to be sure.

I'm glad they're helping! I was especially happy to be able to show some that were clear as well as some that quit along the way for reference.

I just set 190 eggs. They're all from my own birds. I wasn't planning on hatching just yet since I kicked my last hatch outside just yesterday, but I butchered all of my extra boys yesterday and sold all of my available hens today. My tenants just handed my cards to some people who are...

I love watching them go nuts the first time they encounter dirt to bathe in.

My last hatch just got moved outside.

The last chick for this hatch is finally out. Four chicks hatched very late. I had a total of 63 hatch. 2 failed to thrive, 5 are at their new home. That leaves 56!

5 of the new babies just went on their way to a new home. This is a repeat customer, so I know she'll take good care of them.

I have around 50 chicks in the brooder. Still about 30 eggs in the incubator. These three are the first hatch of my potential songbird line.

I'm going to try to get a video of a chick actually hatching. This video failed at that, but the chicks bobbing around in the background made me laugh.

4 out, more zipping.

I heard a squeak from the incubator so I took a look. No chicks yet, but lots of pips. 82 eggs made it to lock down.

The single calico fee chick seems to be doing fine.

My fertility test is looking good! I set 102 eggs and pulled infertiles yesterday. There are 83 eggs left in there, but 10 of the eggs I pulled were from my retirement pen, which has all old birds, so not a surprise. My scarlets had the next worst fertility. Only two each pulled from my...

I'm having so much fun watching this single chick with the old hen. I opened the brooder to make sure the heat lamp was working (It's turned off a couple times), and the hen stood up, walked a bit, then shook her wings and the chick fell out.

I had a moment of panic when I couldn't find the chick...

My cats get a lot of the innards when I process. They know when it's time to come running from the sound of the shears.

I didn't get a video of the hatch...