Hard Water in incubator

[Lacrystol]

I use well water and I have great success on hatchings, shipped eggs does make hatching a lot more challenging then if they were you own..

 

[reereechickens]

I use the bottle water because to cut down on the bacteria and funk. Since I started the bottled water, when I change out my mason jar with fish gravel, there is less funk floating around and my incubator smells better.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

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No, salt won't hurt the hatch. When I do lockdown, I add a pinch of salt to the water reservoir. It adds in the evaporaton rate, & raises the humidity. I've had great hatches with this method.

 

[mstricer]

Thanks so I guess the salt doesn't mater.

 

[cmom]

I am on a well. We had our water tested and the results came in very good. I looks like our well is in an aquifer (underground river). My hatches are 100% or close to it.