How can I raise Humidity

[its hilly]

Well the turner is out, and the eggies are sat on an old towel on the bottom of the inci. Ive stuck in two huge containers of water, but the humidity is still only around 70 and I just dont have any room to put another, or bigger container in there.
The trouble is that when its got the cradle in I can just put water in the bottom, but not now.
Would it harm the eggs if I dampen the towel? Or can I mist them? I have done today, but dont know if I should really.
This is the first hatch I've done with a hygrometer, and the humidity must have been low on my others, and I've had ok hatches, but 'room for improvement'

[smokingdragon]

You could use some sort of wick which will expand the surface area of water. I used a piece of kitchen roll in the water. However I found that the temperature control in my incubator was very poor so I had a very poor hatch. I did not have humidity problems as I did not have egg shell sticking to the 3 chicks that hatched although they had other problems. I also sprayed the eggs with water if I opened the incubator in the last 3 days to ensure high humidity.

[Bramble-Poultry]

Its Hilly - Are you saying that the humidity of the incubator is 70%???

The normal range for humidity for hatching chicken eggs is 30 - 45%. you only raise it to around 70% in the last couple of days for hatching. If you run the humidity at 70% or above for a few days during normal incubation you run the risk of the egg absorbing too much water and the developing chick will drown as the air sac is replaced by the taken up water.

[Scottishnewbie]

Its Hilly - Are you saying that the humidity of the incubator is 70%???

The normal range for humidity for hatching chicken eggs is 30 - 45%. you only raise it to around 70% in the last couple of days for hatching. If you run the humidity at 70% or above for a few days during normal incubation you run the risk of the egg absorbing too much water and the developing chick will drown as the air sac is replaced by the taken up water.

Bramble, is this different for duck eggs?

[its hilly]

Bramble I looked at a couple of sites and they said 60% at first uping it to 80 % for the last three days, so thats what I was aiming for I'll bear that in mind for the next lot then. Cos there will be one very soon as the Cream legbars are now laying and so are Festhers wives Its all happening this week, I'm in shock.

Mind you I came back from the buildings before and went to check the inci and I've got two peeps in there so I'm in deep shock as they werent expected till tomorrow at the earliest, off to update the other thread now.

[Bramble-Poultry]

scottishnewbie - ducks are usually 50-55% raising to 80% for hatching.

as for using the t'internet for advice, i always refer to Katie thear's book on incubation as my bible!