tviss711
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- Apr 12, 2024
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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.
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.