High Humidity in Bator without any water ! HELP!!

[ayshaferry92]

Hi everyone,
I’ve just placed my second round of incubating eggs this year. Just hatched 10 a week ago and everything went well. 3 didn’t pip. ANYWAY, I just set 13 more eggs yesterday evening. The humidity was high before setting as I let the incubator get accumulated. Well.. it’s been about 16 hrs and humidity is HIGH. 60 range and there is NO water. I live in Idaho. Extremely dry climate. It’s not in a humid room etc. I have no clue what to do since the eggs are currently in there.

Help please!!

 

[R2elk]

Hi everyone,
I’ve just placed my second round of incubating eggs this year. Just hatched 10 a week ago and everything went well. 3 didn’t pip. ANYWAY, I just set 13 more eggs yesterday evening. The humidity was high before setting as I let the incubator get accumulated. Well.. it’s been about 16 hrs and humidity is HIGH. 60 range and there is NO water. I live in Idaho. Extremely dry climate. It’s not in a humid room etc. I have no clue what to do since the eggs are currently in there.

Help please!!

Have you checked the humidity with a calibrated hygrometer? For your humidity to be 60% inside the incubator without adding any water, the ambient humidity in the room where the incubator is located would have to be nearly 80%.

Hygrometers included as part of the incubator can give false readings.

Get a different hygrometer and do the salt test calibration with it and then check the humidity in your incubator.

@WVduckchick has a link to her humidity article in her signature.

 

[ayshaferry92]

Have you checked the humidity with a calibrated hygrometer? For your humidity to be 60% inside the incubator without adding any water, the ambient humidity in the room where the incubator is located would have to be nearly 80%.

Hygrometers included as part of the incubator can give false readings.

Get a different hygrometer and do the salt test calibration with it and then check the humidity in your incubator.

@WVduckchick has a link to her humidity article in her signature.

Thank you for the advice! I had the bator in our spare bedroom with the chicks I newly hatched a few days ago so now there is a heat laMp going. I’ve moved it now to the living room in a non drafty area (as close as possible to non drafty) and hopefully that helps. I’ve never had this issue especially just using it so it caught me off guard and now I’m panicked. I will get a different hygrometer!

 

[WVduckchick]

Thanks @R2elk
Link is below.

New hygrometer sounds like a good idea to me. I would bet money the current one is wrong.

Good luck with the hatch!