Incubating 12 Silverudd Blues and one Araucana eggs

[Eggs_Over_EZ]

Just picked up these future chicks from a person an hour away. Got there and she also had two Araucana chicks that hatched yesterday and this morning. Yup the came home to us as well. We have 19 more chicks coming home on Wednesday. Chick math….It is REAL! Now I have had my incubator running for a full day but was not able to get the humidity up so I added more water and now it it over 70% which is way too high. Thinking of trying dry hatching. If I remove the water how long do you think it will take to lower humidity? 10 years since I incubated chicks.

 

[NatJ]

If I remove the water how long do you think it will take to lower humidity?

If you get all the water out, and open the incubator for a few minutes, the humidity will probably come down very fast.

If you cannot get all the water out, the humidity will stay somewhat high until the rest of the water gets used up (evaporates into the air of the incubator, then escapes out of the incubator into the rest of the room.)

 

[Eggs_Over_EZ]

Thank you. I was going to put some micro fiber towel to soak up the water and then see how it does.

 

[Eggs_Over_EZ]

Tomorrow is day 18 for these beauties. So far all are viable and can see movement and air cells as desired. Using dry hatching method in a Maticoopx 30. The humidity has hovered around 30% so far. I read you need to bring it up to 50% during days 19-21, so we will need to add some water tomorrow afternoon. I am a little nervous as this is our first dry hatch. I done the conventional hatching years ago. We shall see.

 

[Eggs_Over_EZ]

Today is hatching day. So far we have three chicks and a few others braking through the shell. I believe one is the Araucana egg and the others Silverudd Blue. Used a combo of dry hatching and standard. No water at all until the evening of day 18. The humidity stayed between 25% to 35% first 18 days. Added water up to 45% and now it is running between 65% to 68%. Do believe one that pupped died because it pipped on the wrong end and saw some blood. Poor thing.

 

[Eggs_Over_EZ]

We have accomplished to have 10 out of 13 eggs hatch. One we thought was gone because earlier in the day it had blood coming out of the hole it had made. No activity most of the day and around 9PM ET is popped out. There are three eggs that has no activity. One I was sure had stopped developing. The other two looked good. We will allow them to go to day 22 just in case they are delayed. It has been 10 years since we hatched and was a little worried. This time we used a Maticoopx 30. We just finished putting 12 chick into our garage brooder and here we are with 10 more. Chicken math it real and is coming for you!