Humidity Question

[blucoondawg]

I have just set my second batch of eggs in my Styrofoam incubator, Farm Innovators forced air. I have a thread on my experience with it thus far, this time I set a full incubator of eggs, had the temp regulated well and didn't add any water. After being set for a day now the humidity in the incubator is right around 60% with a full load of eggs, I assume this humidity is coming from the moisture in the eggs. I have been assuming a good humidity to use is 30 to 40%, and this seems to high, will it go down on it's own with time or do I need to open the ventilation plugs in the top to try to vent some of it out? Or simply leave it? What are your opinions? My house is quite dry as we are in a cold climate with a forced air furnace, my nose has been cracking and bleeding for a month from the dry air so I am quite surprised at this incubator holding so high a level.

 

[Duckopolis]

A god humidity is around 45 to 55%. I would leave it for now because in my incubator, the humidity usually goes down pretty fast. It could be that you have an inaccurate hydrometer. If it stars like that for a day or more, vent it and check to see if your hydrometer is measuring accurately.

 

[lazy gardener]

Why are your plugs closed? I'd open them up and get some air moving. As the eggs get closer to hatching, good air flow will be even more important. The other question is: Is your hygrometer accurate? What does it say your room air is? Happy hatching!

 

[blucoondawg]

My hygrometer is accurate enough I did the salt and water thing and checked it I can't check my room humidity because the hygrometer is in the incubator but I can tell you it is definitely far lower than what it is in the incubator right now. The day I calibrated it was around 25 in the house and it will get even lower. Vents were closed because I didn't want it to get overly dry but I think it is too high now. It isn't closed tight the 4 small holes on top and bottom are open just the larger holes were plugged. I mainly want to know what humidity others have had best luck with during incubation