Calibrated BRAND NEW accurite...guess what it said???

[BawGock]

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Hey Carolyn....what do you keep your humidity at for your silkies? I kept mine at about 50% the first time and my hatch was good. I had ALOT of trouble with humidity this time., it kept dropping into the 30% range and the one that pipped had a very dry membrane.

The fellow I bought the eggs from told me 50-60% days 1-18 and 70-80% day 18 to hatch. It worked great and the eggs dried down at the proper rate, too. I have never incubated at such high humidity before (usually 40-50% 1st 18 days then 55-65% till hatch) so I was scared but not one chick drowned or got stuck either.
But I do want to mention that these silkie eggs came from northern Utah where the altitude is higher and the air drier. And I live in Idaho at 2500 ft and it's pretty dry here this time of year, too.
Carolyn

 

[kid-n-chickens]

I paid $8 for my accurite thermometr/hygrometer at Wal-Mart one of them was 8% and one was 10% low, My thermometers on them are right on. Are you sure you done the salt test correctly? her is a step by step that I found http://exoticpets.about.com/od/herpresources/ss/hygrometer.htm

 

[LALADY1101]

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Yep........that's how I did it. I think something is wrong with the whole thermo/hydro. The only thing that's accurate on it is the time. I'm gonna go get another springfield from walmart. That'll give me 4 in the bator.