Help!!! lock down, humidity with egg carton hatch!!!

[ilovechickens]

I am hatching for the first time in egg cartons, went into Lock down yesterday with a Wednesday hatch, question, there is humidity building up in bator, I have a Genesis Hova Bator, I have water coming out of the holes on the bottom and moisture building up on the plexi glass (see through bator) since my last 2 hatches were done without the egg cartons, I did not have this problem, what do I do, is it something to worry about!! I have 1 egg piping

 

[dragonchick]

The egg carton has probably absorbed a lot of the moisture and is now giving back to the air in the incubator. I have never used the egg carton method but this is all I could think of.

What is the humidity reading?

 

[ilovechickens]

I don't know, it said that I never had to worry about it, just fill the first chamber during regular incubation, and than during lock down, fill both chambers and leave it alone!!

 

[chickiechik]

I have 3 genesis hova bator incubators and use them to also hatch in. I have always hatched in the paper egg trays and my humidity gets up in the high 70's. But I have leave the top vent hole open and have the bator sitting on a tiled table that does not absorb moisture. I haven't had the problem of moisture build-up or water coming out the bottom, so I'm not sure why this is happening to yours. Could the water be coming from the tray below. I fill my 2 chambers half way up, that way when the chicks start to hatch the water level has gone down some, and the moisture from the hatch keeps up the humidity.

 

[kvmommy]

Have you hatched during a different season? Maybe its more humid now in general than before so that combined with the water is raising it?

 

[rebel yell]

You need to get a hydrometer, no mater what the directions say you need to find out what the humidity is in there, sounds like its a little to high from what you are saying.

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

Look at page 4 here:
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/2902/2902-1090/2902-1090_pdf.pdf

This tells you how to use a regular thermometer with wet cotton to figure out what humidity level you have in your incubator. No fancy hygrometer needed.