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Quote: Sorry to hear about the first hatch and glad to see you got back in the saddle quick! Is the 50% humidity your incubation or hatching humidity level...or both? Ed Incubation hum was between 35-45%, with no water added at all. I added a jar lid of water to raise it to 50% for the...

I got 0% hatch on that one. But, it was shipped eggs, every single one with badly damaged air cells. They might not have hatched no matter what I did. A bunch of the didn't even start. I on the 3 day wait right now, with another bunch. I have 7 chicken eggs (4 shipped, 3 from my hens) due to...

MW, I followed that link you posted after I posted last, you did a nice job. I like the way you did the shelves with the plastic gutter guard. I hate working with hardware cloth. I was thinking of trying to find something else, but couldn't think of what. That was a great idea.

I'm gonna see if I can make one out of this old sewing machine cabinet, if my DH will let me. (the sewing machine was his mom's) Or start scouting the local thrift shops until I find something suitable.

MichiganWoods and Beardedchick, beautiful incubators! And gives me a heck of an idea for one, myself.... MW, I'd drill a couple or 3 holes in the top corners. I'm going to drill vent holes just slightly smaller than foam earplugs, then if I overdo it and need to plug any, it'll be easy to do...

Quote: I have a regular LG styrofoam 'bator, the top has 2 vent holes about the size of a pencil, but one has a little metal circle in it, so it's really only about half that size. Then it has 4 smaller holes, you can plug them with a q-tip. There are more holes in the bottom, but I can't see...

Quote: ' "Must be the early morning "ehs??".' Could be. I'm often burning past the midnight oil when I'm posting, too. Sometime I read my previous posts and cringe at the typos and whatnot. I'd look at commercially made 'bators (such as LG, or whatever) of a similar size, and make vent holes...

To clarify my thoughts about increasing oxygen by increasing air pressure (for high altitudes): Simply running a fan does not increase pressure or oxygen. Air blowing into a room, via a vent or duct of some sort, with outlets from the room much smaller than the inflow vent, will increase...

Quote: Why not just drop an aquarium heater and air pump in a bottle of water? I'm just sayin... Or you could set a small aquarium next to your bator and use it as the heater chamber. That would be very easy. Throw in some algae or duckweed and it would be slightly oxygenated. Not sure...

I have no water in the 'bator at all right now, my temp is holding steady at 99.5, (or as close as I can tell, my thermometer doesn't have .5 marks) humidity is at 35%. After reading the ventilation /humidity info that everybody has posted, I was concerned that by air flow may not be adequate...

I worked in hospitals for years, and adding O2 can be very tricky. You can cause brain damage with too much, just as you can with too little. And, yeah, it will go "boom". Even back before the days of no smoking anywhere, there was no smoking permitted where oxygen is in use, because of the...

I just googled around for gauges and sensors, it doesn't seem like a very practical way to go. What I had in mind was keeping the O2/CO2 mixture about the same as normal room air, which may not actually be the best way to go anyway. CO2 under a hen is probably a little higher than normal room...

You know, I was wondering something along these lines since reading the thread/novel about humidity. Now I'm wondering is there's an inexpensive oxygen/CO2 monitor gauge that could be added to a 'bator? I bet that could solve all kinds of problems. Thanks so much for this useful post.