Drowning Chicks I need some Advice…

[CanadaEh]

It was 45-55% when I set it to 30% before my first hatch I’m going to call the company I think there’s something wrong with this machine. That’s all I can figure.

not sure of the incubator you have, but it is unlikely has a dehumidifier. so setting it to 30% only means "evaporate some water if humidity drops below 30%". If you "dry" humidity is 45-55 it is above 30, so machine can do nothing to lower it.

 

[RoosterML]

Sounds to me you skipped step #1 incubating eggs.
#1 check incubator temp and humidity reading with calibrated instruments. If not you’re destined to fail.
#2 temp should be 99.5

 

[ZeiaZeia]

30% but it doesn’t actually get that low right now it’s said to 30% and say 81-82%

 

[CanadaEh]

30% but it doesn’t actually get that low right now it’s said to 30% and say 81-82%

if your room humidity is too high unless the incubator has dehumidifier in it (industrial ones might), it won't be able to lower it for the given temps. To be absolutely sure that it is not working wrong - don't add any water to it. If the humidity still high, you will have to lower humidity in the room or wait for colder/less humid season.

heaving humidity too high during incubation results in underdeveloped air cell and not enough air for chick after internal peeping to breath.

 

[casportpony]

30% but it doesn’t actually get that low right now it’s said to 30% and say 81-82%

Do you have water in it right now? If so, remove all water.

 

[ZeiaZeia]

if your room humidity is too high unless the incubator has dehumidifier in it (industrial ones might), it won't be able to lower it for the given temps. To be absolutely sure that it is not working wrong - don't add any water to it. If the humidity still high, you will have to lower humidity in the room or wait for colder/less humid season.

heaving humidity too high during incubation results in underdeveloped air cell and not enough air for chick after internal peeping to breath.

I must be having a mechanical issue. I may need to take it all apart and dry it out and start again .

 

[beluga3858]

It's possible you could have a leak from the water reservoir into the base. If your RCOM50 is like the RCOM20, there is a tube that connects the left and right water reservoirs. Take it apart and fill just one reservoir slowly - water should flow through the tube and into the second reservoir, there should be no leaks into the base. Check the tube as well as both reservoirs. The larger base area that's under the turning plate should always be dry.

 

[beluga3858]

As for the RCOM sensors, I doubt they are wrong, but there is that possibility. Damage can occur from contamination (eg. fluff from a hatch) of the sensor. We always run our RCOM20 with additional standalone sensors in amongst the eggs. The Xiaomi Mijia Bluetooth humidity sensor is very small and has a high quality digital humidty/temperature sensor (same as the rcom main sensor). You can find these for around $11 each on ebay (US based), or around $5 each if you can afford to wait a couple of months from non-US sellers on ebay, or on aliexpress.

One caveat: these display only Celsius. It is possible to reprogram/flash them to display Fahrenheit but that requires some fiddling around using an android phone. If you're reasonably technical it's not difficult. FWIW we just leave them in Celsius

 

[beluga3858]

The eggs were set in cut down cartons not laying horizontally in the turner.

So how were they being turned? The rcom turner plate isn't going to work with them set like that

 

[ZeiaZeia]

So how were they being turned? The rcom turner plate isn't going to work with them set like that

By hand