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- Apr 7, 2011
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Hi there! I don't have any experience with LGs so please check what I'm saying before you do anything, but remember that fresh air is every bit as important as high humidity for eggs once they get to the pipping stage. I think I've read on here that at the pipping and hatching stage with still air bators you're supposed to take out the plugs to let more oxygen get in. Have a look at your bator's instructions and see if they say anything about it. Or maybe someone with an LG can give you some advice...
And 82% humidity isn't too high. As long as your humidity has been good the first 18 days, once you get to lockdown it can get up past 90% without doing any harm to the hatching chicks. Chicks drown when the humidity ahs been too high the whole incubation, not just cause it's haigh the last couple of days. So don't worry about that.
Thank you! I have removed one plug to get more fresh air in and the temp stays the same while the humidity has gone down to 79% at the lowest. Thank you for reminding me they need fresh air!
And thank you everyone else for your words as well. I don't have the incubators instructions (I borrow it from a friend) so I've just been reading EVERYTHING I can from this site.
So far there are 6 that have pipped. Two that seem to be making continued progress. Lots of peeping!
Hi there! I don't have any experience with LGs so please check what I'm saying before you do anything, but remember that fresh air is every bit as important as high humidity for eggs once they get to the pipping stage. I think I've read on here that at the pipping and hatching stage with still air bators you're supposed to take out the plugs to let more oxygen get in. Have a look at your bator's instructions and see if they say anything about it. Or maybe someone with an LG can give you some advice...
And 82% humidity isn't too high. As long as your humidity has been good the first 18 days, once you get to lockdown it can get up past 90% without doing any harm to the hatching chicks. Chicks drown when the humidity ahs been too high the whole incubation, not just cause it's haigh the last couple of days. So don't worry about that.
Thank you! I have removed one plug to get more fresh air in and the temp stays the same while the humidity has gone down to 79% at the lowest. Thank you for reminding me they need fresh air!
And thank you everyone else for your words as well. I don't have the incubators instructions (I borrow it from a friend) so I've just been reading EVERYTHING I can from this site.
So far there are 6 that have pipped. Two that seem to be making continued progress. Lots of peeping!
