If the ambient humidity is 30% or higher I don't add any water to the incubator until lock down. Then I shoot for 70-75% for the first 2 days of lock down and on the third 60% as when the chicks start hatching the humidity goes up rapidly. Mine went up so fast on one hatch I had to crack the top of the incubator to unfog the window for viewing. The humidity was upwards of 90+ %.
Thank you, my ambient is 60%.
Friend is looking to try BRs as a meat bird...
I have one I have no choice but to break, think she has been broody for about 6 weeks!!!
Not easy. That's why I bought 4 cheap Styrofoam units and use 2 as setters and 2 as hatchers.
Yeah I don't even wanna try it....so my friend is taking them tomorrow to finish incubating and to raise...
I’m battling my lavender guinea hen on this front, as well: she has really gone after my hands + arms this week when I was working to clear her egg stockpile! I’ll be treating these open wounds for awhile.
I have to put a sweatshirt on and gloves when I get eggs.. It has been in the 90's lately so tried with out the sweatshirt but she can reach above the glove and got my arm so now I throw it on to over my arms and it is so much easier to collect the eggs each day! I have to hold her with one hand while I collect since if I put her down she charges me and jumps at me!!!! my other girls may try to peck me but they aren't bad and if I put them down in the coop to collect eggs they just lay there or get up and wander around complaining........ Not my psycho broody! LOLI’m battling my lavender guinea hen on this front, as well: she has really gone after my hands + arms this week when I was working to clear her egg stockpile! I’ll be treating these open wounds for awhile.
Once I get them all collected I am vowing to prevent egg accumulation again, for everyone’s well-being.
