Brinsea Mini Advance and humidity

[sixbabychicks14]

Hi Everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me. I have 7 rhode island red eggs in my brinsea mini advance. We are on day 8 and the air sack is not visable. I took the humidity reading last night and it is in the sixty percent range. I am not sure how to get the humidity down. Don't know if the babies are alive or not, when i candle i can't see anything but darkness in the top of the egg on one side. No blood rings that i can see, although the eggs are pretty dark. The humidity is high here in Louisiana right now because of flooding rain we just had and it stays high most of the time. Should i take the water out of the well altogether? Thanks for any advice.

 

[Chickenwingo]

There are three different types I read and from my understanding there is no control on the humdity. My best advice is send them a email or call them here is there info. I have sent them emails and the get back to you pretty fast. Hope this helps. Good thing they are not exspensive eggs. If you do not see a ring around the center of the egg and some veins there junk stinky.

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[sixbabychicks14]

Thank you, I think I will contact them just to see if there is a way to adjust the humidity.

 

[sixbabychicks14]

I have an update with good news! I just candled and for sure 3 of my eggs are alive because i could see the babies moving. So excited! One egg is definantly a yolker, and the other three look like they are living. Now if i could just get the humidity right. Called Brinsea, they said to take all the water out, but on a couple of my eggs which are dark, i see a little of an air sack forming so i am hesitant to take all the water out yet. It's day 8 so I am putting a little water and crumpled pieces of paper towel in there to see if tonight the humidity is about rite. I'm saying a prayer for my babies

 

[Chickenwingo]

Glad I was able to help you. I would use sponge instead of paper towel.

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

I have an update with good news! I just candled and for sure 3 of my eggs are alive because i could see the babies moving. So excited! One egg is definantly a yolker, and the other three look like they are living. Now if i could just get the humidity right. Called Brinsea, they said to take all the water out, but on a couple of my eggs which are dark, i see a little of an air sack forming so i am hesitant to take all the water out yet. It's day 8 so I am putting a little water and crumpled pieces of paper towel in there to see if tonight the humidity is about rite. I'm saying a prayer for my babies

I have 6 Brinsea Mini Advances, the are great little workhorses but they really hold the humidity. Reduce the humidity by taking all water out of the yellow cylinder. I can add a teaspoon of water and it will shoot right up to 50% within minutes. The first 1-18 days I would add ateensy bit of water every other day or just do a dry incubation until lockdown. Be careful at lockdown, the instructions say to fill both sides of the water well to the top--don't do it--your humidity will shoot up to 90-100%. Put no more than 1/3 full in both wells for about a 65% humidity. I've had these Brinsea's 4 years and love them but do know you have to watch that humidity. All 6 of mine bought staggered over a few years all behave the same so if you are using the mini advance I'm confident I'm giving you good advice. Good luck on your hatch and keep us posted!

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

Hi Everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me. I have 7 rhode island red eggs in my brinsea mini advance. We are on day 8 and the air sack is not visable. I took the humidity reading last night and it is in the sixty percent range. I am not sure how to get the humidity down. Don't know if the babies are alive or not, when i candle i can't see anything but darkness in the top of the egg on one side. No blood rings that i can see, although the eggs are pretty dark. The humidity is high here in Louisiana right now because of flooding rain we just had and it stays high most of the time. Should i take the water out of the well altogether? Thanks for any advice.

Yes, take all water out for now.

 

[sixbabychicks14]

Thank you for the very needed advice! We are there, almost! They are due Easter Sunday and I am so excited and scared at the same time. It's almost as nerve racking as having a baby yourself, haha! Getting ready and any advice is most greatly appreciated, Thanks again!

 

[Melabella]

Thank you for the very needed advice! We are there, almost! They are due Easter Sunday and I am so excited and scared at the same time. It's almost as nerve racking as having a baby yourself, haha! Getting ready and any advice is most greatly appreciated, Thanks again!

I am curious how the hatch went? Hopefully all went well. I am on day 8 with my Brinsea mini advance and it is my first time trying to hatch eggs. I didn't realize there would be any issues with humidity, and now I am nervous. I don't have anything to measure humidity, and was just trusting the machine would do it all correctly. Please let me know how it went.

THanks,
MB

 

[sixbabychicks14]

Hi there! The hatch went pretty good. Two hatched out just fine by themselves but the other 5 needed help. We lost one that never pipped, but had died that morning in his shell. Weird, but he was moving lots that morning. After all had hatched, i candled it and there was no movement at all and it was around 6am Easter morning, so..I went ahead and pipped it and he was fully formed but hadn't absorbed his yolk. I felt terrible. But we have 5 busy puff butts to monopolize all my time! Thanks for asking! I will try to post a picture this evening for everyone to see. Thanks!