How do I raise the humidity?

[Badbaby05]

I have a cabinet style bator, the temp is around 98 to 100 but the humidity is around 30%. I have a dish the size of a sandwich container but a bit longer with a sponge in it and it's just barely getting to 32%

I need some help with this one. How do you get ur humidity up???

 

[Doormantnt]

I had the very same issue with my mini-fridge bator. I couldn't keep it much over bout 35 percent. I put a small drinking glass close to heat bulb. And that took the humidity up to right at 45ish percent. And when lockdown comes I have a waterjug with an old (clean) sock hanging in to it....like a wick.

In the trial run (no eggs) when I filled the wick container my humidity would go up to 65 to 70 percent.

so I acually have 3 water containers in my bator. A glass bread dish under wire floor under eggs, a glass close to bulb, and the wick sock hanging.

The main thing with humidity I learned and have been told is to increase surface area. not so much put in a bucket, but a cookie sheet. more surface is more evaporation..equals more humidity.

Good Luck.

TNT

 

[Diamond Wire Farms]

First of all is your hygrometer accurate? You can search BYC for ways to calibrate it.

Surface Area of water = humidity. If you need to increase the humidity I have had good luck cutting the sham-wow type material into strips and using it like wicks to draw moisture up out of a dish. Or try another water bowl. Or add more wet sponges in other places of the incubator.

 

[Badbaby05]

Lol this should be fun...I'm running outta floor room in it

 

[Doormantnt]

If your runnin out of floor, can you go up?? My wick is hanging from the wire rack.

 

[Badbaby05]

Hanging it from the racks is a very good idea. I have the hygrometer in a bag with the salt slurry stuff. I'm hoping it's way off, I really don't want to battle with humidity. Will update with my findings.

 

[Badbaby05]

Hygrometer is off by about 2%...did the wick thing with great results, so good that I put in a test batch of eggs

Lets all hope and pray this works out

 

[happydog]

I also had a hard time keeping humidity up. (I have to run a humidifier sometimes in the winter, it's REALLY dry here.) Sponges weren't doing it for my incubator.

Finally I found a shamwow knockoff in a dollar store. Folded it in half and put it in a plastic shoebox lid. Twice a day I pour a glass of hot water over it. That works great! Those things hold a LOT of water. You might try attaching it vertically with just a corner stuck in a glass of water.