I design and build my own incubators.

[007Sean]

Howdy and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

@NomoreCSIncubating , you should open another thread on this , under the 'Incubating & Hatching' thread, as this forum is for Introduction of New Members.
That having been said, I'd love to 'pick your mind' on this method.
It goes against every known method of incubation....if it's so great, why haven't commercial hatcheries 'discovered' this method? I'm not being confrontational or doubting what your saying but at the same time, I'd like to see some 'cold hard facts' in an article, research paper, diagrams, proof of concept, etc...if you would be kind enough to share with us.

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[drumstick diva]

Sean

 

[Cyprus]

@NomoreCSIncubating Truly does hold some ground though, folks. I stand with them. I built and used my own wooden incubator for several hatches. It worked in much the same way, though it had been unintentional. My humidity was always 10-25% as well and my heat was about 100°F or so. I hatched plenty of chicks and not a one shrink wrapped. I have a thread here on it, actually.

 

[NomoreCSIncubating]

Howdy and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

@NomoreCSIncubating , you should open another thread on this , under the 'Incubating & Hatching' thread, as this forum is for Introduction of New Members.
That having been said, I'd love to 'pick your mind' on this method.
It goes against every known method of incubation....if it's so great, why haven't commercial hatcheries 'discovered' this method? I'm not being confrontational or doubting what your saying but at the same time, I'd like to see some 'cold hard facts' in an article, research paper, diagrams, proof of concept, etc...if you would be kind enough to share with us.

Thanks for joining our community!

Well to start out it would never work for a large commercial type hatcheries their incubators depends highly on humidity to spread heat throughout the large incubators.

I have talked with companies like Brinsea and titan incubators amd about 50 other incubator companies.

I have talked to poultry magazines who refuse to do articles it is really hard to get anything published when it goes against conventional thinking.

It will come eventually just like everything else it just takes time.

 

[NomoreCSIncubating]

Howdy and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

@NomoreCSIncubating , you should open another thread on this , under the 'Incubating & Hatching' thread, as this forum is for Introduction of New Members.
That having been said, I'd love to 'pick your mind' on this method.
It goes against every known method of incubation....if it's so great, why haven't commercial hatcheries 'discovered' this method? I'm not being confrontational or doubting what your saying but at the same time, I'd like to see some 'cold hard facts' in an article, research paper, diagrams, proof of concept, etc...if you would be kind enough to share with us.

Thanks for joining our community!

Well I was trying to introduce myself !

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you decided to join us

 

[NomoreCSIncubating]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you decided to join us

Well so far there are a few that are not so happy to see me here but thanks.

 

[Phunktacular]

I don't believe it's because anybody isn't happy you're here. I think it's because you're defying everything that's ever been "known"about incubating eggs. I find it interesting. I'm in process of designing an incubator of my own and though I'll be adding a humidity controller, I'm interested in maybe building a smaller one with your method to try.

 

[NomoreCSIncubating]

I don't believe it's because anybody isn't happy you're here. I think it's because you're defying everything that's ever been "known"about incubating eggs. I find it interesting. I'm in process of designing an incubator of my own and though I'll be adding a humidity controller, I'm interested in maybe building a smaller one with your method to try.

Well the kicker is this is how I learned to incubate 40+ years ago there was no such thing as lockdown or adding water we used galvanized steel incubators that would have rusted if any water was added or had a domed acrylic incubator with a light bulb in the top there was no place for water.

The lock down really is not anything I had heard about until about 11 years ago still just have never seen the advantage to it I see a big determinate to the incubation process when people say their chick had been alive on day 18 to have all gone when they should have hatched.

But I dont have a problem giving you some help to build one yourself

 

[HatchCraft]

Well to start out it would never work for a large commercial type hatcheries their incubators depends highly on humidity to spread heat throughout the large incubators.

I have talked with companies like Brinsea and titan incubators amd about 50 other incubator companies.

I have talked to poultry magazines who refuse to do articles it is really hard to get anything published when it goes against conventional thinking.

It will come eventually just like everything else it just takes time.

Your are definitely right that you can't compare large commercial incubators to small hobby incubators. It's my understanding that one of the main reasons for increasing the humidity in large commercial incubators is to dissipate heat. During the later stage of incubation egg produce a lot of heat and the circulating air is actually cooling the eggs. Humid air conducts the transfer of heat more efficiently. With out it the egg would quickly overheat. Imaging how much heat is generated by a hundred thousand eggs. Could be why you have success at a slightly lower incubating temp. I have no problem incubating and hatching at a relatively constant humidity, though its difficult to get much lower than 40 in my climate.