humidity??? help with my LG

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Amanda Patrick

Amanda Patrick

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May 17, 2012
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ok so I am still new with incubating and i had one peacock hatch last yr and found out i had humidity issues that caused them to die. My mom told me she was getting me a bator that was good. but it isnt working out in time and i need the eggs started. so today i bought a humidity reader and temp because the old one got lost. so far my humidity is reading around 80% so i took out a jar i place in there with water and sponge. then it raised to 86%. i am going to check it soon again. (its at my grandma's house because she believes she can do it) but she will not let me remove the red caps. I do not know but i am planning on getting another LG to place at my house with my say.
 
What is the humidity sapose to be for pea eggs . With chicken eggs you want 30-50 % for the first 18 days and 70ish the last 3 days . I dont know anything about pea eggs so I cant help you with that but I can say with LGs you just have to be inventive. Jars with water and pieaces of sponge big enough to sit inside the water in the jar and then stick out the top. A small wash cloth or hand towel folded so its long and about 3 inches wide damped and layed across one side sponges tampons and you should find a piece of tubeing or straw or soemthing that will work from the air vent holes so that during lock down you can add water to whatever it is you use. Good luck
 
humidity is suppose to be 60%. i dumped most of the resoviors and started with just the middle one to see where that gets me.
 
I have a LG, and I am having challenges with high humidity also. It's also my first hatch. I am hatching chickens. I couldn't get my humidity under 73% for almost an entire day. I took all the water out completely. There isn't a drop in there. ( live in Florida so the room is pretty humid already as it is).

I finally am at 49%. I took both red caps out, AND I lowered the air conditioner to 72% in the house. NOBODY is allowed to touch it now.
Still haevn't added back any water. My temps are right on spot at 99.5%. I hope it doesn't drop too low during the night while I sleep, due to there being no water in there. 49% is WAY better than 73% on day 2, so I will cross fingers til morning and see.

I personally think that having no water in there, AND dropping house temperature, AND removing both red caps are pretty extreme measures, but it seems to be the only thing that has worked.

xoxo Annmarie
 
MomsGoneMild said:
I am reading and understanding that if the humidity is too high this early it will effect the evaporation within the egg, causing an undersized air sac.


xoxo Annmarie
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Yup, you need nice big air cells by hatch time. Eggs need to lose weight and moisture. They need to pip into that air space to practice breathing and expand their lungs. Low humidity gets better hatch rates than it being too high, for me at least. With all my eggs, every species including peafowl, I run the incubator dry till right before they are due to hatch. Always worked just fine for me.
 
i have also read about the air sac and the navel not being able to close up due to it too high or too low. i had not enough humidity the first time and the ones that hatched, their legs cripled and the others were fully developed inside the eggs. this time I checkd it was 90%, i do live in Indiana and just had a rain yesterday with 94F weather....
 
I got mine down to 35% !!! whoot whoot!
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