Help! Humidity keeps going down.

[AmyLynn2374]

Please, before you let an other day go by, read the information in the learning center regarding "dry hatch". Lots of chicks are killed by following the instructions that come with an incubator! You'll get a much better hatch keeping your humidity down to around 30% during the first 18 days of incubation. Read all of the information in "Hatching 101" and you'll have a much better idea of what's going on and how to optimize your hatch. Most important: calibrate your thermometer to 100*, and keep that humidity down until lock down.

x2 You don't want your humidty that high for the first 17 days. And those manuals are ONLY good for telling you about the product, not about hatching. I also recommend considering dry hatching and learning about why we control humidity and how to tell if your humidity is working for you. I can send you some info on it if you would like.

 

[sonilla]

But my incubator is set in a way that whenever humidity goes below 45 it will beep.. at what temperature should the humidity be right now at day3... it sometimes goes to 53, but how will I be able to increase humidity at day 18

 

[AmyLynn2374]

But my incubator is set in a way that whenever humidity goes below 45 it will beep.. at what temperature should the humidity be right now at day3... it sometimes goes to 53, but how will I be able to increase humidity at day 18

You can (or should be able to) change the alarms on the incubator so they don't go off, or go off at a different prefered number. There is no magic number. I like to keep mine between 30-40%. At lockdown you fill your wells and if that does not give you the humidity you want you can add a couple wet sponges or clothes.

I believe the key is just monitoring your air cells to make sure they are growing properly and adjusting the humidity according to the needs of the air cells.

 

[WalnutHill]

I am absolutely a believer in "lower humidity" hatching. I won't call it dry hatching as sometimes it is necessary to add water. But the goal is not to vary much from atmospheric humidity.

I find that my incubator smells a LOT better with this hatching method. And a clean smelling incubator means that it's not harboring a lot of mold, mildew, bacteria and yeast.

I also believe that the actual humidity measurement at each moment of each day is not critical, it's the overall humidity during incubation and hatching that matters. Please do read the wonderful Hatching 101 instructions.

 

[sonilla]

I am not being able to change the humidity level alarm... and even after I took some water out, it's still at 53

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I am not being able to change the humidity level alarm... and even after I took some water out, it's still at 53

What kind of incubator are you using?

 

[sonilla]

The box says it's a had egg incubator new technology here's a picture of it

 

[sonilla]

Sorry it's a hdd incubator

 

[AmyLynn2374]

The box says it's a had egg incubator new technology here's a picture of it

You can change the alarms on those. On this youtube video he has the codes stuck on the top and the low humidity alarm is AS I believe it was.

Unfortunetly he doesn't tell how. I'm thinking toggle the digital display to read AS (if that's what the code was) and then hit set and the "-" to lower the percentage number you want ot to go off at.

 

[sonilla]

How to do that, I lowered the temp as low as I can but none of the displays are coming with AS