High Humidity Please Help

[WVduckchick]

 

[MrsChicky55]

I love Brinsea products and would add a Brinsea Spot Check thermometer, but scratch the candler. A good tactical flashlight of 250-300+ lumens does as well. Just make sure it uses AA or AAA batteries. I got one that uses some stupid batteries that are like 10 bucks each, and it takes 2. But it's awesome! I only use that one at critical times. Otherwise i love my MiniMag lite, wrapped with a piece of craft foam with a hole cut in it.

Thank you so much for the thermometer recommendation, I hadn't seen that on amazon. I love that it's accurate to 0.1 degrees F!!! If I buy another thermometer, this will definitely be it! Onto the Christmas list it goes!

 

[MrsChicky55]

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I've got a friend with a flashlight collection/addiction. I'll ask him for a recommendation in this range!

 

[WVduckchick]

Awesome!
One thing to clarify about the Spot Check - it's basically instantaneous (ok, within a few seconds lol) so like when you open the incubator, and it drops to 93, it doesn't mean the egg temp dropped that low. It will also rise and fall with the heater in an incubator, when it kicks on and shuts off. So the highs and lows will change. But the average is what is important.

 

[MrsChicky55]

I love Brinsea products and would add a Brinsea Spot Check thermometer, but scratch the candler. A good tactical flashlight of 250-300+ lumens does as well. Just make sure it uses AA or AAA batteries. I got one that uses some stupid batteries that are like 10 bucks each, and it takes 2. But it's awesome! I only use that one at critical times. Otherwise i love my MiniMag lite, wrapped with a piece of craft foam with a hole cut in it.

A friend of mine is a flashlight aficionado. I told him what I needed and my budget, he recommended the Surefire G2x pro. I'd rather spend $50 on a high quality flashlight I can easily adapt to candle my eggs so it's dual use than spend that kind of money on just a candler.
He has an earlier model that’s only 200 lumens and took these picture for me.

 

[WVduckchick]

A friend of mine is a flashlight aficionado. I told him what I needed and my budget, he recommended the Surefire G2x pro. I'd rather spend $50 on a high quality flashlight I can easily adapt to candle my eggs so it's dual use than spend that kind of money on just a candler.

A friend of mine is a flashlight aficionado. I told him what I needed and my budget, he recommended the Surefire G2x pro. I'd rather spend $50 on a high quality flashlight I can easily adapt to candle my eggs so it's dual use than spend that kind of money on just a candler.

That one is similar to mine and looks super! (maybe a little more expensive than necessary), but it also uses the 123A batteries, and they are expensive. Mine uses them up pretty fast. Cheaper brand 123A batteries seem to do as well for my purpose as expensive ones tho. I do use the flashlight for hunting season too, so at least it's not "just an egg candler" lol!

p.s. Just checked, my flashlight is a Bushnell, but the batteries are Surefire! Lol

 

[MrsChicky55]

Ok so I’ve got 4 pips. But I’m a little nervous this one is unzipping wrong! Is this normal or okay?

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Looks normal to me. But I can't tell if it's zipping or not yet.

 

[MrsChicky55]

Looks normal to me. But I can't tell if it's zipping or not yet.

The crack didn’t start that big. But then again it only piped 5 hours ago. This is my first hatch so I’m not sure. But the cracks are about an inch long now.

 

[WVduckchick]

It may knock a few holes before it actually starts zipping fully. Ducks do that alot, but my chickens usually continue once they get started. Once they really get started though, they should keep going, with only short pauses (a minute or two between punches). As long as it doesn't start going down the long axis of the egg, I'd let it do its thing. It should eventually straighten it out, and follow pretty much along your pencil line area.