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NO!!!!!! God I hope you are on here to see this!!!! that is way too high on the humidity...needs to be 20 to 45
rookie with an incubator
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I'd get that humidity down some. I've done ok with 50% humidity but idealy I shoot for 40% and 101 degree temp for a still air incubator.
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yeah I took the average of what everyone has told me an what I have read...the prime temp for a still air is 101...egg will be at an average of 99.5...and if you listen to people about humidity it is all over the place. I have heard from 0 to 50....I have mine at 35 percent. I only have 8 eggs in the bator and all 8 have moving embryos..candled last night. but 70 is way too high!!!!!
Check out the dry hatch method. I am going to use it next week! you need 11 to 14% evaporation in the egg so they can hatch properly!
Thanks everyone for your input. It's finally settled at 60% which is what the instructions say is good. I have a circulated air incubator
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Well here we sit in day 11! all is going well! I didn't get to candle last night (Day 10) I got stuck at work on a double shift...GRRRRRR
As soon as I got home tonight I candled and all are growing
WOOOOHOOOO Humidity dropped just a little bit to 33 so I added some water and it is still sitting at 33...gonna give it a little bit of time and see if it comes up....
As soon as I got home tonight I candled and all are growing
WOOOOHOOOO Humidity dropped just a little bit to 33 so I added some water and it is still sitting at 33...gonna give it a little bit of time and see if it comes up....- Thread starter
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BTW.... THIS IS ADDICTING!!!!!!!!
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Funny story....we got 3 silkie chicks that were 4 weeks old...not able to sex yet! So we have been keeping them in the bathroom in a brooder until I can get the coop finished. We had our suspicions that two of them were roos (dont want any roos!)
their combs and wattles were growing. Well last week I found a great deal on 2 3 day old buff orpingtons and the guy wanted the splash silkie (roo) so I did the trade....was all excited...the silkies are now 11 weeks old...the very next morning I woke up to this god aweful screach coming from the bathroom.....yep the second one..my favorite is definately a ROO!!!!!.....Anyone looking for a silkie cuckoo roo?
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