Humidity??

[dak]

Good luck!

 

[silkiechick05]

Thanks so much!

 

[FrenchToast]

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Yep - I have two of them, and for my first hatch, everything was VERY stable. I found if I only put water in the two center wells (not the outside one) during hatch, the humidity stays right at 65% and goes to 70% when there are little bodies running around (with the plug out the whole time). So far, I have hatched 13/14 in my first batch (the 14th one, I haven't given up on, yesterday was due date, so I will give him another day or two as he was alive when I moved him to the second 'bator due to the hatch being pretty finished and it's stinkin bad!

I expected to get a 50% hatch rate, so I put in 14 eggs, thinking 7 would be great... ummm... go figure, my first hatch ever, I get almost 100% hatch! I really like this incubator!

Oh yeah, I did the dry incubation as well.

So where did you put the water for incubating days 1-18? And what humidity level?

 

[jophoto]

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Yep - I have two of them, and for my first hatch, everything was VERY stable. I found if I only put water in the two center wells (not the outside one) during hatch, the humidity stays right at 65% and goes to 70% when there are little bodies running around (with the plug out the whole time). So far, I have hatched 13/14 in my first batch (the 14th one, I haven't given up on, yesterday was due date, so I will give him another day or two as he was alive when I moved him to the second 'bator due to the hatch being pretty finished and it's stinkin bad!

I expected to get a 50% hatch rate, so I put in 14 eggs, thinking 7 would be great... ummm... go figure, my first hatch ever, I get almost 100% hatch! I really like this incubator!

Oh yeah, I did the dry incubation as well.

So where did you put the water for incubating days 1-18? And what humidity level?

You all will kill me - I didn't watch my humidity for days 1-18. I put a little water in the middle well the first day... let it dry out completely, and then put a little more in around day 13... let it dry completely. On day 18, I filled two of the three wells, and then finally bought a hygrometer, and the humidity read correctly for day 18.

My first hatch started to hatch on day 20. My second hatch is on day 20, and I just woke up and there is one pip, and some rockin' eggs...