What's your humidity at now? What's the temp?
Chick died in pip
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so currently temp is 37.2 and humidity 75%
And an hour ago temp was 38.5 and humidity was 55 so I put the little red vent half on but then temp and humidity went to like 40.3 and 85!
It’s fluctuating so often!
as I’m writing temp went to 37.9 and humidity 70
what the?!
I’m just Popping in every couple min to make sure I’m not cooking the chicks with the heat now.
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Does your incubator have a fan?
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No it’s a still air styrofoam
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Take a deep breath, whatever will be, will be at this point. I would open whatever vents are available all the way. Ventilation is more important than humidity as they're hatching. You'll have less issues with the humidity being low than it being too high.
Just to give you an idea of humidity, it's a finicky thing but when I have a plastic incubator set up in the same room as a styrofoam incubator I have much better results with lower humidity in the styrofoam incubators. With plastic incubators I set humidity between 45-50% for the first 18 days and then I increase it to 65% for hatch. In a styrofoam incubator I average at least 10% lower humidity at all times, so for me 35-40% for the first 18 days and then I still increase to 55-65% for hatch but I just watched someone successfully hatch chicks without increasing it beyond 45% for hatch day in her styrofoam incubator and while I haven't tried it myself I do know of people that set up their incubators in their garage where it's more humid (here in Georgia) than in the house and they popped extra ventilation holes in their incubator and never added a single drop of water. Now with all of that said, I think you'll find your next hatch goes way more smoothly if you go for much lower humidity or even dry incubation since you're seeing all the signs of a sticky chick hatch.
Good luck on your babies! I hope you still have plenty of little ones hatch!
Just to give you an idea of humidity, it's a finicky thing but when I have a plastic incubator set up in the same room as a styrofoam incubator I have much better results with lower humidity in the styrofoam incubators. With plastic incubators I set humidity between 45-50% for the first 18 days and then I increase it to 65% for hatch. In a styrofoam incubator I average at least 10% lower humidity at all times, so for me 35-40% for the first 18 days and then I still increase to 55-65% for hatch but I just watched someone successfully hatch chicks without increasing it beyond 45% for hatch day in her styrofoam incubator and while I haven't tried it myself I do know of people that set up their incubators in their garage where it's more humid (here in Georgia) than in the house and they popped extra ventilation holes in their incubator and never added a single drop of water. Now with all of that said, I think you'll find your next hatch goes way more smoothly if you go for much lower humidity or even dry incubation since you're seeing all the signs of a sticky chick hatch.
Good luck on your babies! I hope you still have plenty of little ones hatch!
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Thank you!Take a deep breath, whatever will be, will be at this point. I would open whatever vents are available all the way. Ventilation is more important than humidity as they're hatching. You'll have less issues with the humidity being low than it being too high.
Just to give you an idea of humidity, it's a finicky thing but when I have a plastic incubator set up in the same room as a styrofoam incubator I have much better results with lower humidity in the styrofoam incubators. With plastic incubators I set humidity between 45-50% for the first 18 days and then I increase it to 65% for hatch. In a styrofoam incubator I average at least 10% lower humidity at all times, so for me 35-40% for the first 18 days and then I still increase to 55-65% for hatch but I just watched someone successfully hatch chicks without increasing it beyond 45% for hatch day in her styrofoam incubator and while I haven't tried it myself I do know of people that set up their incubators in their garage where it's more humid (here in Georgia) than in the house and they popped extra ventilation holes in their incubator and never added a single drop of water. Now with all of that said, I think you'll find your next hatch goes way more smoothly if you go for much lower humidity or even dry incubation since you're seeing all the signs of a sticky chick hatch.
Good luck on your babies! I hope you still have plenty of little ones hatch!
mai far only signs ofthe one drowned chick
I have lots of pipping. Is it Normal to see the inner membrane around the chicks as they hatch? It looks tight around one of them but I dare not touch anything
Can you post a picture?
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