Humidity in Nurture Right 360 Question!

[tviss711]

I am on day 18 of a dry hatch in my Nurture Right 360. I have been slowly adding water to the chambers, and waiting 10-15 minutes to see what happens. It has slowly gone up from 29% to 66% in the last hour that I've been working on this. I am going slowly as this is my first hatch and I do not want to mess this up, 7 out of 8 eggs are doing great and the one that didn't wasn't fertile to begin with. They are the babies of my first flock which was killed by two of my neighbors dogs who escaped their yard and I desperately want them to hatch!

I am hatching the eggs in my classroom as a fun observation project for my fourth graders who have been loving it. My main question is: am I adding the water too quickly? I'm trying to get it up to 70% but I am afraid to leave my classroom in case I over-did it and it ends up increasing too much over a longer period of time. Right now it has stayed at 66% for the last 20 minutes. Should I keep adding a little bit at a time until I get to 70%? The vent is about 85% open at the moment. I know the goal is 70% humidity with the vent open but every time I do that I lose humidity.

I wish I was measuring the amount of water I've been adding, but I haven't. Just adding a little bit of warm water from a paper cup as I go.

 

[Cheekychook12]

I am on day 18 of a dry hatch in my Nurture Right 360. I have been slowly adding water to the chambers, and waiting 10-15 minutes to see what happens. It has slowly gone up from 29% to 66% in the last hour that I've been working on this. I am going slowly as this is my first hatch and I do not want to mess this up, 7 out of 8 eggs are doing great and the one that didn't wasn't fertile to begin with. They are the babies of my first flock which was killed by two of my neighbors dogs who escaped their yard and I desperately want them to hatch!

I am hatching the eggs in my classroom as a fun observation project for my fourth graders who have been loving it. My main question is: am I adding the water too quickly? I'm trying to get it up to 70% but I am afraid to leave my classroom in case I over-did it and it ends up increasing too much over a longer period of time. Right now it has stayed at 66% for the last 20 minutes. Should I keep adding a little bit at a time until I get to 70%? The vent is about 85% open at the moment. I know the goal is 70% humidity with the vent open but every time I do that I lose humidity.

I wish I was measuring the amount of water I've been adding, but I haven't. Just adding a little bit of warm water from a paper cup as I go.

Keep the vent fully open, ventilation is very important after lockdown, especially when eggs start pipping
Keep adding water until it is 70%with the vent fully open, if it goes over that for a little while it’s ok, someone on byc did experimental hatching tests to how important things like humidity really are, and although they aren’t proper experiments it showed that humidity isn’t that important
Just try to keep it steady if you can

 

[tviss711]

Keep the vent fully open, ventilation is very important after lockdown, especially when eggs start pipping
Keep adding water until it is 70%with the vent fully open, if it goes over that for a little while it’s ok, someone on byc did experimental hatching tests to how important things like humidity really are, and although they aren’t proper experiments it showed that humidity isn’t that important
Just try to keep it steady if you can

Okay thank you that is very reassuring. I've got the vent fully opened and its holding fairly steady at 70%. I don't see why, after I leave my classroom, it would suddenly skyrocket into the 80's or anything. I think I will try to get it to 71-72% before I leave for the day, just in case some of the water evaporates away overnight. I'm afraid of drowning chicks, but after candling them before lock down I think I should be more concerned with shrink wrapping since I did a dry hatch. All of the air cells are sizable, so as long as they position themselves correctly they should be okay.. but I tend to be a worry wart about these things.

 

[Cheekychook12]

Okay thank you that is very reassuring. I've got the vent fully opened and its holding fairly steady at 70%. I don't see why, after I leave my classroom, it would suddenly skyrocket into the 80's or anything. I think I will try to get it to 71-72% before I leave for the day, just in case some of the water evaporates away overnight. I'm afraid of drowning chicks, but after candling them before lock down I think I should be more concerned with shrink wrapping since I did a dry hatch. All of the air cells are sizable, so as long as they position themselves correctly they should be okay.. but I tend to be a worry wart about these things.

Shrink wrapping isn’t an issue until they actually start pipping, and it’s not a death sentence either, whereas drowning is. I helped several chicks hatch successfully that had stuck membrane and one that was malpositioned (pipped not in air cell) and they are all alive and well today, they tend to look tired and half dead after this which freaked me out, but in half an hour they were bouncing around like jellybeans

 

[tviss711]

Shrink wrapping isn’t an issue until they actually start pipping, and it’s not a death sentence either, whereas drowning is. I helped several chicks hatch successfully that had stuck membrane and one that was malpositioned (pipped not in air cell) and they are all alive and well today, they tend to look tired and half dead after this which freaked me out, but in half an hour they were bouncing around like jellybeans

Okay that's good to know. I think I feel comfortable leaving my incubator alone right now as it is reading a steady humidity of 70% for the last 25-30 minutes or so with the vent fully open, and if it drops overnight I don't think it will be too significant. It's raining outside right now and is expected to for the next three days where I live so I don't see the outside air pulling away the humidity from my incubator. I think I'd be worrying less if they were at my house, but they are in my classroom and I have no way of monitoring when I'm not there. I will be setting up a wifi camera tomorrow so that will hopefully ease my mind lol.

 

[Georgeie]

Okay that's good to know. I think I feel comfortable leaving my incubator alone right now as it is reading a steady humidity of 70% for the last 25-30 minutes or so with the vent fully open, and if it drops overnight I don't think it will be too significant. It's raining outside right now and is expected to for the next three days where I live so I don't see the outside air pulling away the humidity from my incubator. I think I'd be worrying less if they were at my house, but they are in my classroom and I have no way of monitoring when I'm not there. I will be setting up a wifi camera tomorrow so that will hopefully ease my mind lol.

Did it work? How did it go?

 

[tviss711]

Did it work? How did it go?

It did! 6/7 eggs hatched! the one that didn’t had popped her yolk sac while attempting to pip, which was a sad accident, but not something I could have prevented.

 

[Georgeie]

It did! 6/7 eggs hatched! the one that didn’t had popped her yolk sac while attempting to pip, which was a sad accident, but not something I could have prevented.

What a cool teacher! Glad it worked to build their faith. Glad it worked because I should have success next time too.