- Apr 23, 2014
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What is your humidity for lock down?Location, location, location. It changes so much with your location. So far this year, and it has been a rainy spring, I have done well with the lower humidity running in the low forties and it does not seem to matter at hatching time if I run 45% or 75%, both are working fine for me. I think the key is low % humidity in the incubator.
As a side note; the auto water fill bucket on the Sportsman got clogged up with minerals. The float valve stuck and the pan was dry, I don't know for how many days, but when I noticed it the humidity was 39%. I have had two really good hatches since then so I don't think that mattered so much. The bucket when filled, will normally last two or three weeks before needing to be refilled.
I only have a small room in my house where i could run my incubator in, its the same room where i raise my chicks, the only thing i could do to change the location is to move it right or left for a few feets.
I'm thinking of lowering my humidity for the first 25 days, i'm just waiting my eggs in the hatcher to hatch tomorrow and then i will candle the eggs with dead chicks to see the size of their air sac, i read if the air sac was too small before moving to lock down it means too much humidity, if so i will reduce the humdity.