Just curious since I don't ever have broody hens. Has anyone ever kept track of the humidity and temp under a broody hen for 21 days? I'm curious as to what it would be on average. I'd like to find out and then do a test run in my incubator with the same settings and see how the hatch turns out.
I do 45% humidity days 1-18 and 65% days 19-21. I only add two ounces of water every other day to maintain that percentage. I run aquarium tubing and color code each one to the correct water channel. I have a meat marinade syringe that I use to add the water through the tube.
I ordered a dozen two months ago they sent 13 eggs. 2 were cracked, 6 clear, 4 made it to around day 14-16 and stopped. 1 hatched. I'm a little upset that I only got one. I did have a friend give me a breeding pair, but I'm thinking of just getting rid of them and going with a different breed...
I'm going to have him cut it shorter when we start on the new run. I've been doing test runs on my VSB auto chicken door. I bought it over 10 years ago, but haven't used it in a few years. I'm just now getting back into chickens I missed them when I didn't have any. I also have some Georgia...
LOL, I told my hubby a couple times to cut it shorter. Did he listen to me? No, as you can see he left it as he made it. I live in Naples, Fl and its been in the middle 80's here this week. We don't even really get cold days here lowest night we have had has been a warm 45 degrees.