Incubation help needed

[Aliciamwa]

Hi I all first time poster and first time trying to incubate. I brought an eBay incubator and were I live the humidity is around 58%outside my incubator, inside my incubator I have the temp set at 37.6 and the humidity level is around 57% inside the incubator. Now I need to bring it down to under 50% but how do I go about doing this? The incubator can take water but when I put water in the humidity went up not down so I have emptied it to start again dry but it still won't come down!!! I have tried adding rice and it dropped a little but how else can I try and bring it down ? Please help

Ps I can't open more vents as the ones it has are permantly open and I don't have a humidifier....

 

[ChickNanny13]

Don't add water & close off few vents by putting tape to cover. Adding water is used to raise the humidity. You don't want to close off all the vents as the eggs need to breathe.

 

[cmom]

I wouldn't put any water in the incubator either. I have used something like DampRid unscented moisture absorbents in my incubator to help bring down the moisture. I have some larger reusable ones.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

were I live the humidity is around 58%outside my incubator, inside my incubator I have the temp set at 37.6 and the humidity level is around 57% inside the incubator.

Hi there, welcome to BYC!

Don't trust the readouts... NO WAY is the humidity the same inside and outside the bator. The heat ALWAYS decreased the humidity some... Usually by at least 15% here.

Get some calibrated hygrometer/thermometer stuff to use... it WILL impact your hatch rate.

I live in the PNW on the coast and humidity is also always high. Usually not adding water works plenty well. Noting that humidity will go up just a touch when eggs get added... depending on how many. What kind of eggs are ya hatching?

close off few vents by putting tape to cover.

Huh, never though about closing (some) vents to lower humidity!