Pasha I totally understand you about not wanting to try this. I only put the clothes in there only after they externally pip and show on the outside.. I just run my incubator at lower humidity through the 27 days. Then I put more water in the R-com and turn the humidity up to 75%. I have been hatching eggs for years now and know what to do and when to do it. You are new to it and need to do it your way...
Serv I only have the cloths in the incubator after the eggs have externally piped and they are very moist and stay wet for the 3 days needed... A brand new sponge will work too Serv. Like I said you put them in only after the eggs pips so they stay wet the whole time..
I had too unsystematic incubation - one egg was in one day, another - in another day... I did not collect all eggs for one day and the hatching was very scattered in time... And in this (first) incubation i did not write any date on the eggs - forget when any egg will be hatch. Maybe this egg, or maybe another...
Next time i try to put all the eggs in one day and write the date on every egg. Then i will have any order.
About your experience - well, tell me please about that. For example, i read in various places about the humildity, the people write that the humildity must be high (65%) all the time, and last days must be 80% or higher.
At the begining for chickens - 45%, goose and ducks - 60%. The r-com king suro 20 have a standart settings: 45% of humildity. I must to down the humildity?
Did you make any incubation width this humildity? About the geese eggs: we really need to down the humildity below as standart humildity (chiken, 45%) to 20%?? The geese will hatch better if the humildity will be only 20% (first days of incubation)? Or it will be normal if use a 60% humildity?
I believe about wet cloth (because when the goose-girl sit on the nest she can be wet very often). But i know that the incubator have a automatic control, if i will make high humildity by muself, the system begin to stop the pump...
I have seen another incubators (for example Blitz) there aren`t any automatic control of the humildity, there are the "baths" (one, two or three). There i really can put a wet cloth, and put there much water. But i really afraid to interfere in the humildity when work a automatic system. I can control the humildity by buttons (stand high humildity), but i am not sure that open the incubator very often will be a good idea...
We shall see, after some years i will have one formed opinion on this issue, now i don`t know
