Humidity for hatching silkies and hook worm problems

[minihorse927]

I think some of it is humidity, I try to run mine somewhere between 30 and 45%. Mostly 40-45%. I have to run mine completely dry in a styrofoam incubator. Just adding a teaspoon or so of water when the humidity drops down torwards 30%. Removing the red plugs will lower humidity usually unless your house is really humid. When you remove the plugs though watch your temp, some of the foam incubators seem to fluctuate in temp if you take the plugs out and they were in when you got the temp right. You can buy a thermometer/hygrometer combo at walmart fairly cheap. They are not perfect accurate but they give you a good idea of what the humidity is, do not usually trust the thermometer part of it though.

 

[kbryant]

Thanks guys for all your help

Keep it coming

 

[kbryant]

Ok, I checked the humidity in the house. Temp was 71 and humidity was 46. What do I need to do now??????

 

[acid_chipmunk]

How many days into incubating are you?

 

[kbryant]

They will be due around the 27th for the silkies and I have 2 duck eggs due on the 29th. Incubator temp is 99-100 degrees and 58% humidity. The house is 46% humidity and 71 degrees. any help is greatly appreciated and how do I lower the humidity in the incubator I have tried a few things but it only goes up never down. I live in North florida and don't know whether that has anything to do with it.
Thanks!!!!!!

 

[Bryam]

For your area, you should try dry hatching them next time. When you use this methods, you usually add like a teaspoon of water every couple of days 40 percent humidity, them bump the humidity to 65 the last 3 days!

Good luck next time!

 

[ChickenLegs13]

I use a 1602 which I think is about the same thing as yours. I live close to the Gulf so it's very humid. If I fill the 1 water trough like the instructions say it puts my humidity @ 72-73%. Removing the red plugs doesn't lower my humidity, just makes the water in the channel dry up faster. To get my humidity lower I disregard the water channels and use a piece of wet kitchen sponge instead. It takes a piece of sponge 1"x1"x1" to keep the humidity @ 40%. The sponge dries out in about a day and has to be refreshed.
Hope this helps.