➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

My guess is that he is not measuring the humidity in his incubator. I am sure that if you go to the site and contact him that he will give an answer. He is or at least was a member of BYC at one time and has been very helpful to a lot of people. That article is for hatching turkeys and may not be 100% applicable to hatching quail.

Porter's Rare Heritage Turkeys

Thanks.
I'm going to bug him just because I need to know if he kept track of the humidity in his bator or not.
It won't make a difference in my current incubation.
I just want/need to know.

 

[sdm111]

I've always wondered about that too. I live in a very dry area. Brinsea manual says between 40-50% First hatch I shot for 45% and had 90% hatch rate -- I had no big or sticky chicks. After reading about dry hatches, I've lowered it to the 38 to 40% range. I'm curious, but scared, to go lower.

The dry method is geared towards Styrofoam incubators which are known for bad humidity levels not any other types

 

[R2elk]

NOW you tell me this!
How the heck am I suppose to find out what the lowest level it will read is?

It is typically listed on the package or instructions. If you have discarded those you can normally find them out by googling the model of hygrometer that you have.

 

[R2elk]

So are you saying that the humidity in my bator should stay the same and not get any lower because the temp is holding steady?

I'm stuck on stupid right now.

That is true as long as no other conditions change. A change in the humidity in the house (up or down) can cause a change in the incubator. Of course humidity normally takes a spike when hatching starts.

 

[sdm111]

Always holds correct humidity

 

[R2elk]

Always holds correct humidity

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Super Duper Self Adjusting Incubator

 

[ronott1]

So are you saying that the humidity in my bator should stay the same and not get any lower because the temp is holding steady?

I'm stuck on stupid right now.

It will stay close but will still very if humidity changes in the room.

Don't go below 25% humidity.30 to 35% is good

 

[Kiki]

It will stay close but will still very if humidity changes in the room.

Don't go below 25% humidity.30 to 35% is good

The humidity is at 16% in the bator right now.
A little too late for not gong below 25!

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

I have been using this

Me too

 

[Kiki]

A swamp cooler is what those of us in a dry climate use instead of an air conditioner. They are much cheaper to run than an air conditioner but if you have high humidity to start, it won't work for you.

"What is a swamp cooler and how does it work?
Direct evaporative cooling (open circuit) is used to lower the temperature and increase the humidity of air by using latent heat of evaporation, changing liquid water to water vapor. In this process, the energy in the air does not change. Warm dry air is changed to cool moist air."

Never heard of such a thing.
Interesting.
We would all DIE without an air conditioning system down here.