Humidity Fight

[Flawedatdesign]

No it was a staggered hatch these eggs went in about a week before the others were due to hatch. hated to do it but had too as they were pushing age limit. After this hatch I will be changing this incubator over to a brooder. That will give me time to calibrate everything before it goes into the new bator.

 

[Arielle]

My LG changes humidity based on the weather. If its raining, the humidity goes up in the LG; when the weather pattern changes, gets cooler and drier, the humidity in the LG goes down. I'm tracking air cell sizes to get it right the first 18 days; for lockdown I plan to use sponges or rolls of paper to wick water from a baby food jar. THis increases the surface area so more moisture vaporizes into the air and increases the humidity. Good luck.

 

[quintinp]

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Plugging up all the holes probably isn't the best idea. Yes, it will definitely raise the humidity, but it will also reduce the oxygen flow, which could do more harm to the chicks than slightly low humidity. The oxygen flow is absolutely crucial in the last week of incubation. If it wasn't, bators wouldn't have holes in the first place!

I have my homemade incubator, and in it I don't have any vent holes, the lid isn't completely air tight, but it is a cooler, and I got 100% hatch last time, I have chicks hatching right now, they are okay.

 

[Arielle]

My LG has many vent holes in the top and bottom; the top just sits on the bottom si is not a tight seal. At 11 days eggs need an increase in ventilation according to some university sites.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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AC is running harder lowering the room humidity?

 

[John Chicken GB]

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How are you measuring the humidity ? cos if you have plenty of surface /water the humidity should be ok . you could be fooled by a dodgy reading ???

 

[quintinp]

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How are you measuring the humidity ? cos if you have plenty of surface /water the humidity should be ok . you could be fooled by a dodgy reading ???

First Question: MY answer, I have a digital thermometer hygrometer. If you have the water very close to the heat source, the water will be heated hotter than the rest of the incubator, because it gets hotter it evaporates more water than if the same amount of water were right next to where the eggs, (the eggs are further away from the heat source.

 

[Alexander]

Why so much fuss over humidity?

I had 12 out of 14 eggs hatch yesterday and the humidity was from 20 - 30% the WHOLE time.

I had no problem.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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That may work for you where you are but not here. I can run humidity that low for the first 18 days but if I ran it the last 3 I would be lucky to get one chick hatched. I've tried it.

 

[Flawedatdesign]

Well tore everything apart after checking the eggs for the final time and all were dead. The way I mounted my gauges the open spring on the back couldn't move like it needed too. Giving me the wrong reading which means I probably drowned most of the remain eggs.