Humidity with little giant no air blower

[julieleonard]

I have a little giant incubator and how do you know if you have enough humidity?
there are little troughs to put water in but not enough humid my chick died because it.
i have a little container in there with water and it seems to be holding temp stable also
if anyone has any ideas let me know please
Thanks

 

[sumi]

Buy a hygrometer in put it in there so you can monitor the humidity. I bought a very nice incubator a few days ago and I refused to set any eggs before I had a hygrometer in there! Correct humidity is so important, I need to know exactly what it is when I incubate.

 

[Brookhavens]

I bought several of these HYGROMETERS off of ebay. The store is right in Tampa and it only took 1 day to get here.They work great and are very easy to calibrate:

 

[julieleonard]

thanks i just bought it on ebay

 

[julieleonard]

oh yeah.. how do you calibrate them?

 

[Brookhavens]

oh yeah.. how do you calibrate them?

I bought one of these Calibrations kits from the same guy or you can use table salt/water and a ziploc bag. Here's a good video on youtube about CALIBRATION
I used the salt method a few times but then decided to go with the kit. Much easier to use and they are reusable.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

A salt test is very easy and reliable. Use a bottle cap filled with salt and add drops of water until it's a paste not water slurry. Put the cap and hygrometer in a ziplock bag and wait four hours. It should read 70% humidity; however much it is off from that you adjust the hygrometer or just put a sticker on it to remind you how far off it reads. If you can adjust, calibrate, the hygrometer wait to do so until the gauge stabilizes back to room humidity.

 

[julieleonard]

do you have any americana eggs or arancna eggs i would love to have differant chicks