Humidity..

[sara]

I'm sure this has been posted, but I'm short and time and don't see it. What does the humidity need to be in the bator. I want to get it regulated for my eggs.

 

[aran]

50-60% for the first 18 days then up to 70-75% for the last 3-4 days.

 

[sara]

thank you!

 

[Smoky73]

Boy, I am soooo glad I have my Lyon incubators and didnt buy a cabinet one. It has been in the high 90's and 100's here and I have A/C in my house. Its a small house, so we have a window A/C that cools the whole house. It is consistantly about 75 in here. We have very low humidity in general, about 30-35% but I havent had a problem with my Lyons. I actually stopped turning a bator on Friday for the last three days and stuck a digital hygrometer in the bator (wasnt any room before) and found that the humidity was like 35%. Lordy, I still had a chick hatch 2 dyas early and another started. I dont think I had the bottle turned enough to get the humidity higher. Now its at 60 and holding but I am not worried. I almost cant keep these chicks from hatching. I swear, the Lyon incubators will hatch anything even if you seriously screw stuff up!!!

Normally even with my outside humidity at 30-35%, my bators hold the humidity steadily whereever I have it set and dont even have to think about them for 18 days. I actually forget to check them they are so consistant.

 

[aran]

i made my bator...am on day 19 ( well in 5 mins it will be after midnight and then it will be day 19!

) and today i increased the humidity to 70%...no AC here though, not hot enough for that yet.