How/when to add humidity to shipped eggs?

[meepANDpeep]

I have 3 shipped silkie eggs and one shipped turkey egg. I let them rest for 36 hours, and they've been in the incubator since Wednesday... I didn't start turning them until Saturday and I have been turning them very gently in the upright position at a slight angle clockwise then counter clockwise.... I'm not sure if any of this is right because I've read so much contradictory info, but that's not even my question, because if I'm going to mess anything up, it's the humidity...

My hygrometer is reading 17% sometimes 20-22% but nothing higher. I was dry incubating them to let the air cell grow, but is this too low?

For shipped eggs, I'm not really sure what to do. I candled them today, and 2 look viable and the other 2 possibly viable but just early... they seem to have air cells now ( albeit some sketchy ones). Should I up the humidity, or keep them dry incubating since they were shipped? I'm new to this. My last batch of eggs I incubated were supermarket quail eggs, and so this is essentially my first true and prepped bird egg incubation, and it's my first chicken egg incubation.

 

[Justso]

 

[meepANDpeep]

 

[aart]

I don't think shipped eggs need any different humidity level than non shipped eggs.

Having turkey and chicken eggs in the same bator might cause issues around hatch time.
Turkey eggs taking 28 days compared to chickens taking 21 days.

Most important is to test your therms and hygros:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...incubator-thermometers-and-hygrometers.73634/

here's some mreo reading that might help you learn:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-beginners-guide-to-incubation.73350/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/incubation-humidity.73386/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...gs-no-problem.1046313/page-5385#post-16540512

 

[meepANDpeep]

I don't think shipped eggs need any different humidity level than non shipped eggs.

Having turkey and chicken eggs in the same bator might cause issues around hatch time.
Turkey eggs taking 28 days compared to chickens taking 21 days.

Most important is to test your therms and hygros:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...incubator-thermometers-and-hygrometers.73634/

here's some mreo reading that might help you learn:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-beginners-guide-to-incubation.73350/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/incubation-humidity.73386/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...gs-no-problem.1046313/page-5385#post-16540512

I have another bator I plan to move it to. It's just easier for now to look after them, but thank you for all the resources, so I should get the humidity up to 35-50%? I have tested the hygrometer, so I can say with fair certainty it's accurate.

 

[aart]

so I should get the humidity up to 35-50%?

That's where I run mine for the first 18 days...tracing air cells on day 7-10-14 to keep an eye on size.

 

[meepANDpeep]

I read an article that said you lower the incubation for shipped eggs that had air cell detachment - these were so bad in a couple I couldn't even see an air cell, but they all seem to have one now, so I guess humidity isn't an issue