Ideas Needed- so devastated

[RachaelS]

Sorry "brown" stupid iPhone

 

[halo]

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The digital one is pre-calibrated and it's brand new. The other one is just one of those stick to the wall ones that's a thermometer/hygrometer combo made for terrariums...not sure that one can be calibrated (?). I can try upping my humidity...would I up it during the whole incubation or just during lockdown? I'm so afraid of having it too high and drowning them! I have naturally VERY low humidity according to the hygrometers when the bator isn't in use- like 15-20% tops.

Actually, I would try to lower the humidity a bit. My hygrometers always read 18% when not in use.

Truthfully, Im really not sure anymore about watching humidity so carefully. Ive thrown away my hygrometers. I incubate in a Hova and hatch in an Eco 20. I put water in the hova when I think about it, once or twice a week. I fill the water channels in the Eco at day 18 and put the eggs in there to hatch, shut the lid, and in 2 days, take out chicks. That is working much better for me than having hygrometers and fretting over the swings in humidity. It never gets too high, which I think is a chick killer more than too low.

I dont concern myself over keeping humidity high during hatch, since there is so much inherent humidity in the incubator from wet chicks.

http://exoticpets.about.com/od/herpresources/ss/hygrometer.htm

 

[1muttsfan]

You can check your hygrometers using the salt method, then just make a notation about how far they are off. I have 2 that I use, one reads 3% high, the other 3% low, neither is adjustable but you don't really need to adjust them as long a you know how far off they are.

You had a great hatch rate with your other eggs, so it is unlikely the incubator was the problem, more likely to be something about those eggs. Which you will probably never figure out, unfortunately. Don't be discouraged, even the most experienced hatchers have problems at times. Remember that none of them would have hatched if you had not incubated them, they would be an omlet and long ago eaten!

 

[klf73]

Halo, you do what I do

except I use my brinsea to incubate and my homemade bator(all digital made from big cooler) to hatch , same way with the water....I used to obsess horribly at first...but things got easier the less I worried