I went to a store and bought a still air incubator, it bring its own thermostat, and heats up the eggs itself. Any idea how I can increase the humidity? Since my chickens haven’t layed anything fertile yet I haven’t quite used the incubator. The rooster mated two of the hens this morning but I...
Do you keep that bowl of water inside that incubator, I bout one instead of making one, the only way the incubator reach 100.1 F% is but playing a heat lamp on top of it, but that also damages the eggs while incubation.
Just for safety measures I ended up incubating a couple of eggs in a incubator with a heat lamp on and 3 out of 4 eggs ended up cooking from the inside. Had I fertile egg when I opened all the 4 eggs and the other 3 were no good.
What I will do is keep a heat light on inside the coop during the night, to keep all my eggs warm enough so that way they may hatch inside the coop, i won’t keep the Light too far or to close that way the eggs receive the amount of heat they need in order to incubate. Let me know if this works.
Got lucky this morning my rooster started crowing this morning and had to get up from bed to check up and made sure he would be quite because the neighbors might complain. So I set up a lamp in the coop and by the time I put back all the hens inside the coop my rooster ended up mating I also...