HELP! Duck eggs incubated at to high of humidity

[bellybrown25]

I have 5 duck eggs in an incubator and I had the humidity to high, 70% (mis read what it was supposed to be at). I am at day 21, is there anything I can do to better this situation and hope for them not to be sticky or shrink wrapped
I'm having such bad anxiety and guilt over this

 

[Debbie292d]

Hi, and welcome to BYC!

Have you candled them to see if they're viable? Sometimes they can surprise us.

If they're still alive, I'd set it to 40-45 now until lockdown in a few days, then back up to 70%

 

[Susan Skylark]

As long as your temp is stable humidity won’t crash your hatch, birds still manage to hatch chicks in places with 95% humidity just fine. Don’t panic!

 

[bellybrown25]

Hi, and welcome to BYC!

Have you candled them to see if they're viable? Sometimes they can surprise us.

If they're still alive, I'd set it to 40-45 now until lockdown in a few days, then back up to 70%

Thank you for the reply! 2 eggs have pipped externally and are cheeping They starting hatching way sooner than expected! They were abanodned eggs so it was hard to gage how long they had been there. I was off about 6-8 days

 

[Yardmom]

I have seen a few threads where people purposely incubate duck eggs with higher humidity. Hopefully you estimated hatch day a bit off and you will have ducklings soon.