Humidity in LG

[IggiMom]

I am on day 19 in the LG, so I am trying to keep the humidity up. It is around 40%.

How can I get it higher?

I have the little troughs filled, I have two wet sponges in there. I have several small jars of water (open) in there.

What else can I do?

 

[jhart101]

Hi IggiMom...I am on day 20 with 6 Silkie eggs in an LG. I went to Michael's craft store and bought a "little bag" of sea sponges (hold a large amount of water for size) for 2.99. Soaked all 6 sponges and placed in the LG...humidity went from 40-44 to 70-73 with in an hour.
My understanding is it's surface area not volume to increase humidity...I may be wrong!!! But this worked for me and was cheap. Best of luck!

 

[Darin115]

Get a spray bottle and mist it in the bator. That will do it.

Darin

 

[IggiMom]

Ok, thanks folks. I shall try both things.

There have been a couple unfortunately temp drops and one spike to 102. This is my first time hatching with an incubator.

But I am going to assume they are alive and give it my best shot so long as there is hope.

Catherine

 

[Boyd]

I always toss in a soaked washcloth. clean of course

 

[chicksgalore]

I don't think 102 is enough to kill the peeps. And I don't know how much your temps dropped but I did a hatch with a LG 2 months ago and my temp sometimes went down to 93-ish. My eggs (well 14 out of 25) still hatched.

 

[IggiMom]

My temp went down to 94. Trouble is, I am not sure for how long, because I was away for the weekend.

So I am still quite hopeful, and thank you for the kind words.