Too add, or not to add...

[sheena]

My eggs went into the incy on 29th June, and temp ranges between 36 and 38.
Humidity has always been around 30 and started creeping upwards a day or 2 ago. This morning the humidity was at 20!

I thought has the egg's lose moisture the humidity was able to be left until day 18. (read this somewhere although I can't remember now).

Incy is a still air kind, it has a normal mercury thermometer, and one of my digital weather one's (cos I can't read the mercury one through the window). The humidity reader is a dial kind that i bought off ebay.

I've not candled the eggs yet, so I don't know which are viable and which aren't.

The question i'm wondering is, should I add some water, or leave until day 18?

[Suechooks]

Not got a lot of experience but I have a still air incy (Covatutti 16) and I found the humidity fluctuated 30-40 but when I had washing in the room it went up to 60! I hatched early on in the year when the humidity would be higher anyway. With the hot dry spell it's probably lower. Could you put a bowl of water in the room where the incy is? That would raise the room humidity and then add the water to the incy on day 18.

[sheena]

Maybe I was panicking unduely, been in to check it again and it was just under the 30, so all may not be lost yet.

The incy is placed around the corner from where the window is, which I need to have open just to keep the air temp in the bedroom down (sit's between 20 and 27 during these hot days) I will see how we go til the next turning session and if it drops again i'll pop a cup of water in the room.

Thanks Sue