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too low humidity is better than too high!! you might be drowning your chicks...if condensation is on the windows, i'd say it was too high..maybe others will post with more experience..good luck
I too just hatched my first batch in a hovabator foam bater.I didn't have any way to measure the humidity either. all seamed fine till close to the hatch, added water twice a week, no condensation on windows for the first 3 weeks but when I was worried as no hatch till the 25th day I heard peeping before it started.I too opened it up and misted with a spray bottle then had some condensation forming. came back a couple hours later & figured I better spray again & when I opened I had one bird out and more cracks forming.Windows were to condensed to see anything. Opened up & dried off the window, pulled the plugs but still wouldn't clear up.Only wound up with 54 out of a 100 hatch. 7 were splaylegged and wound up having to cull them.The real problem was leaving them in there for 24 hours to dry, they never did dry. Wound up having to get them under the heat lamp in the brooder to dry, they all dryied in 10-15 minutes, will be 2 weeks old monday & getting feathersI will check out those holes in the bottom maybe not enough circulation