Advice needed...first incubation

[mstricer]

You should join the New Years Day hatch there are a lot of others that have a hatch date late also, lots of fun, good information and good people to chat with
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ears-day-2014-hatch-a-long/3750#post_12498364
This will take you to the last page close to where I posted last you can read all of it if you want but that is a lot of reading. Come on over and join

 

[MontanaDolphin]

You should join the New Years Day hatch there are a lot of others that have a hatch date late also, lots of fun, good information and good people to chat with
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ears-day-2014-hatch-a-long/3750#post_12498364
This will take you to the last page close to where I posted last you can read all of it if you want but that is a lot of reading. Come on over and join

Ok I'll check it out! I'll probably repeat myself with my first post

 

[MontanaDolphin]

You should join the New Years Day hatch there are a lot of others that have a hatch date late also, lots of fun, good information and good people to chat with
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ears-day-2014-hatch-a-long/3750#post_12498364
This will take you to the last page close to where I posted last you can read all of it if you want but that is a lot of reading. Come on over and join

I'll put the pics there too

 

[mstricer]

It will be nice to have a new hatcher

 

[MontanaDolphin]

There we go. Any readings you make with it now just add 5% for accuracy. Doing that will keep you +/- 1% of true and that's more accurate than you need to be for hatching. The main thing is now you know your gauge is not completely out of whack and reads about 5% low.

Good Luck and don't forget to post pictures of the new chicks in a few weeks.

So the humidity has been at 16% for a day...so that means it is really 20%, right? Is that still ok or do I have to put some water in there???

 

[Egghead_Jr]

So the humidity has been at 16% for a day...so that means it is really 20%, right? Is that still ok or do I have to put some water in there???

Exactly, and it also lets you know your hygrometer is a bit slow to read (mine reads true on salt test by 4 hours some take longer) so any changes made you don't worry there is not an "immediate" effect or think the guage will read true instantly.

You must be past 7 days or nearing 10 on your hatch. Candle and see how the air sac is growing. If it looks good to the diagram on first page of this thread then up the humidity. Again, I like 35% ish others say higher and still others say lower. What everyone should agree on though is proper air sac growth (water loss in egg) and for me that's about 35% humidity first 18 days.