Humidity in incubator Vs Humidity outside...

[Poultry keeper12]

The sock of rice makes it worse!! Any other suggestions???

 

[WVduckchick]

Remove all the eggs and dump the water! It will not hurt the eggs to be out for a few minutes to take care of it.

 

[Pyxis]

Remove all the eggs and dump the water! It will not hurt the eggs to be out for a few minutes to take care of it.

X2, definitely remove the water.

 

[Poultry keeper12]

Remove all the eggs and dump the water! It will not hurt the eggs to be out for a few minutes to take care of it.

Hey, well I just candled my eggs all 19 of them have growing embryos there is no water in the incubator, but it still is boosting up! Also a few air sells look fine and a few don't.

 

[WVduckchick]

Hey, well I just candled my eggs all 19 of them have growing embryos there is no water in the incubator, but it still is boosting up! Also a few air sells look fine and a few don't.

The styrofoam will take a little while to fully dry out. Just hang in there now.

 

[Poultry keeper12]

Hey, humidity is down, and all of them are ok! Thank you all for your help.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Thank you for the reply! The humidity outside is almost 90% my trays at the bottom of the incubator were filled up at the beginning of incubating so it is hard to empty that. I have a peep window that I proped open at the top of the incubator. My incubator is Styrofoam so it is easy too pull open the top a little. My temperature is off so I higher it too 102.5F is that ok??

Are you running still air? Do you have second opinion meters?
I am in Florida, rains everyday. I ran my last 3 hatches bone dry from start to finish with excellent results.

 

[Poultry keeper12]

Are you running still air? Do you have second opinion meters?
I am in Florida, rains everyday. I ran my last 3 hatches bone dry from start to finish with excellent results.

Hey, I am running a still air incubator. My previous hatches were perfectly fine, it's just this year... They have not been that good. Is it the humidity?? Or temperature. They seem too live until hatching time, and they just don't hatch, any thoughts??

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Hey, I am running a still air incubator. My previous hatches were perfectly fine, it's just this year... They have not been that good. Is it the humidity?? Or temperature. They seem too live until hatching time, and they just don't hatch, any thoughts??

I am running 3 styros right now. All still air. One of my ovens is set to 107*F, another set to 105*F and one at 104*F. BUT, my aux meters are reading 100.5. Factory meters are just set up meters and are very unreliable. Don't trust those built in meters in the styro ovens.

 

[cmom]

I recently have had the same problem. We have had so much rain and the humidity has been very high. We recently had over a foot of rain when normally we should have gotten 2 inches for the same time period. I tried all of the suggestions. I wanted my humidity around 30% because that is where I have the best hatch rates. I couldn't get the humidity below 50%. Finally I got some Damp Rid and put the container in my water tray, I incubate in a cabinet. It worked. I have chicks hatching at this minute. I recently bought some 20 gram packets with moisture absorbing beads. I haven't tried them yet, they turn color when they need to be changed and are reusable.