Help with incubator!!

[Ms Clucky]

We had a regular incubator, not a wet bulb one. We tried bringing the % down once before and we had to help a few out of the eggs because it was to dry. So we bumped it up higher and got a better hatching. The picture that I use for my profile was 7 of the babies I hatched. We have hatched a lot doing this method.

 

[Pyxis]

We had a regular incubator, not a wet bulb one. We tried bringing the % down once before and we had to help a few out of the eggs because it was to dry. So we bumped it up higher and got a better hatching. The picture that I use for my profile was 7 of the babies I hatched. We have hatched a lot doing this method.

So those are percentages, not a wet bulb reading? Wet bulb isn't a type of incubator, it's a way to measure humidity instead of a hygrometer. Are those the percentages you are using only during lockdown, and not during general incubation? Have you ever calibrated your hygrometer?

 

[Ms Clucky]

Those are temps during lockdown. Some Chinese made brand.

 

[Pyxis]

We incubated bantams and put the humidity at around 80 and then we incubated turkens and other bigger ones and put the humidity up around 90.

Those are temps during lockdown. Some Chinese made brand.

I'm sorry, I'm confused, I thought you said it was the humidity you were putting at those numbers? But actually you were lowering the temperature? Just trying to clarify.

Temperature shouldn't change during incubation. It should stay the same throughout, even in lockdown. However, as the temperature decreases, if the surface area of the water in the space stays the same, the humidity will be higher. So by lowering the temperature, if that is what you meant you were doing, you were also, in effect, increasing humidity. Next time, keep the temperature the same and just add more water surface area, instead of lowering the temperature, which can be detrimental to the hatch.

 

[casportpony]

We incubated bantams and put the humidity at around 80 and then we incubated turkens and other bigger ones and put the humidity up around 90.

That humidity seems high to me.

 

[Chixky2]

We are getting there!!!

 

[WVduckchick]

 

[Chixky2]

She is out!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Congrats!

 

[H@tcher]