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- Jun 30, 2023
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So doing my reasearch into things as normal and I see a lot of people saying on days 18 they go into a lock down period with an incubator, no touching or turning eggs so the chicks can prepare to get into position to pip and the humidity remains within a specific threshold. That's great for an incubator, but how does that work with a broody hen? Will she keep trying to turn them, what if she gets up to have her daily dustbath and visit to the feeding/watering station... will the cooler air and possible drop in humity whilst shes gone shrink wrap them before they hatch. People seem to be very panicky about the humidity and turning in the last few days in an incubator but hens have a higher hatch rate in general and they need breaks right? What really is the difference here? Thanks for your comments ![Smiling face with smiling eyes :blush: 😊](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png)
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