incubation humidity

What do you generally try to keep your humidity at? What is your average hatch rate?

This might be a controversial subject and I don’t want to get into a debate, but my experiences with hatching ducklings in an incubator have left me questioning how valid and necessary the ‘lockdown’ really is…. having said that I am often incubating ducklings during the last half or quarter...

I have 6 shipped eggs all but 1 have detached saddle shaped air cells. I found this out on day 8 from candling. I read an earlier thread about keeping them upright in an egg carton through the remainder of the incubation which I have done (it’s day 10 now). Prior to finding the detached air...

I need some help! I am using Brinsea Mini EX and set quail eggs yesterday. The temp and humidity was stable (settings: Temp 99.6F, Humidity 40%) until after I placed eggs in the incubator. The humidity dropped to 35% and remained there overnight even after I closed the vent and raised the...

Hi I all first time poster and first time trying to incubate. I brought an eBay incubator and were I live the humidity is around 58%outside my incubator, inside my incubator I have the temp set at 37.6 and the humidity level is around 57% inside the incubator. Now I need to bring it down to...

Hi, I recently started incubating chicken eggs, in my first batch 6 out of 20 made it to lockdown stage then none of those 6 hatched! 2nd batch 14 out of 30 made it to lockdown then only 4 hatched on day 21-22 others all didn’t make even a pip and when I opened the eggs on day 24 only one of...

Hi everyone! So I've incubated and hatched some chicken eggs but lost some in the process. I'm worried that I might have done the temperature and humidity wrong. I've been searching the internet about the ideal temperature and humidity. Some say around 50-60% humidity with 102 degrees for...

I am about to put 7 bantam eggs into lockdown on day 18.5, 6 of the eggs are of normal developement for day 18 (the fetuses fill all “non-airsac” egg space), but one of the eggs appears to be developmentally behind, as if it were on day 15 or so, with the fetus only filling 2/3 of the...

Hi lovely people! I've been trying to google if humidity packs can be used to regulate humidity during artificial incubation and can't seem to find anything. Am I just looking in the wrong spot or is there a reason I can't find anything on it? I'm looked into using the Boveda humidity packs...