August Hatch along?

[BlueBaby]

Ok, I started lock-down today on mine. Mine are due to hatch on Tuesday!

 

[Sakai]

Welp, my incubator is still not stable. The temp was finally correct but the humidity suffered for it. So I added a wet paper towel and let it run a few hours. now my humidity is fine but the temp dropped to 95. So I took the paper towel out to see if that was what was causing it.
Not sure if I need to use hot water on the paper towel to prevent the cool down. I'll try again in a few hours once the temp comes back up.
Safe to say no eggs will be set. I'll fiddle with it and set eggs on Friday.

 

[BlueBaby]

Welp, my incubator is still not stable. The temp was finally correct but the humidity suffered for it. So I added a wet paper towel and let it run a few hours. now my humidity is fine but the temp dropped to 95. So I took the paper towel out to see if that was what was causing it.
Not sure if I need to use hot water on the paper towel to prevent the cool down. I'll try again in a few hours once the temp comes back up.
Safe to say no eggs will be set. I'll fiddle with it and set eggs on Friday.

What type of incubator are you using?

 

[Jules929]

Good morning! Forgive me if I have missed any of your info, @Sakai, but I don't know where you are. Are you using AC? If so, are the vents in the room where your incubator is set up closed? Or do you have sunlight streaming into the room? These things might be contributing to the fluctuations. Have you tried using a heat sink in the incubator to help stabilize the temp?

 

[Sakai]

What type of incubator are you using?

My hubby made one based on the styrofoam coolers he's seen here.

Good morning! Forgive me if I have missed any of your info, @Sakai, but I don't know where you are. Are you using AC? If so, are the vents in the room where your incubator is set up closed? Or do you have sunlight streaming into the room? These things might be contributing to the fluctuations. Have you tried using a heat sink in the incubator to help stabilize the temp?

I'm in Arizona.Yes we have AC. Yes the vents are closed, and the room has no windows. Yes we're using a heat sync

I put the paper towel back in with HOT water this time and the humidity went up but again the temp went downto 97. So I took it out after 2 hours of low temps. The temp stablized back at 99-100. Then I changeed out the small plate I was sitting the sponge in for a slightly wider one and over filled the sponge so there would a a pool of water (It was hot water)
So I know the incubator will hold 99-100 if we leave it alone. Yet when I test for lockdown level of humidity the temp seems to suffer for it. Seems as the humidity gets over 40% the temp is below 97 degrees. This is so strange.

 

[MichelleBelle]

Update: the chick who pipped in the wrong end was deformed and passed before it ever made it out of the shell. The chick who had internally pipped and was chirping zipped overnight and has just emerged. It looks fully formed and is doing ok for now. All the other eggs show no signs of life, but I won't discard them just yet. We may only get 1 chick from this hatch. But that's one more than I had yesterday!

 

[Jules929]

I'm in Arizona.Yes we have AC. Yes the vents are closed, and the room has no windows. Yes we're using a heat sync

I put the paper towel back in with HOT water this time and the humidity went up but again the temp went downto 97. So I took it out after 2 hours of low temps. The temp stablized back at 99-100. Then I changeed out the small plate I was sitting the sponge in for a slightly wider one and over filled the sponge so there would a a pool of water (It was hot water)
So I know the incubator will hold 99-100 if we leave it alone. Yet when I test for lockdown level of humidity the temp seems to suffer for it. Seems as the humidity gets over 40% the temp is below 97 degrees. This is so strange.

It is strange, and beyond my experience, lol. Sorry I couldn't offer anything more useful. Good luck!

 

[Sakai]

It's not a problem, ^.^ It is a weird issue. Perhaps I'll post a thread on the main incubating forum. Someone must know something.

 

[igorsMistress]

@Sakai

Humidity is controlled by the amount of surface you have that's wet. A plate that you can just put water on may work better than paper towels or a sponge.

I found that warm water worked better than cool for less heat loss; it corrected humidity percentage more quickly so I didn't add too much water and see the humidity go too high once it warmed up.

 

[Jules929]

Maybe a heating pad under the incubator?