I have a question. I made a hatcher since I have staggered hatch dates. How do I lower the temp but keep the humidity? I know I need to put air holes for O2 but should I do anything else?
Thank you for any ideas
Thank you for any ideas
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Very nice. It been holding steady for a while and then when I put the eggs in the temp dropped. I wrapped it in towels to help hold in the heat a little better and protect it from drafts. It's on the table in the kitchen so the kids can watch. The temp is at 100 and humidity at 84%.
I rarely touch the thermostat. My temperature also goes up but I don't touch the it for several hours and let it settle and then if I have to tweak it I do. When I hatch in my LGs the only thing I really notice is as the chicks hatch the humidity will go up some which doesn't bother my hatches. I use my homemade hatcher most of the time. It is more stable than my LGs. I do take the chicks out as a few hatch then they go into a brooder box for a day. I open the viewing windows and grab the chicks out. Is yours a Still Air or Circulated Air? I just set some eggs tonight in lockdown. I have a couple of more hatches left then I'm through probably for the rest of the year. Now to watch them grow and pick out the keepers. I am trying to breed for show quality. The next shows around here aren't until November. I'm hoping to have some show quality out of these hatches. I keep picking the judges brains for improvements I should make. I have been working on leg color, more yellow in the legs. Where are you in Mass? My husband is from Newburyport. We may be coming up for a vacation. It will be a short one for me but DH may stay longer. I have to get someone to care for my birds and right now I have about 350 in 9 coops. It takes me about a half hour or more to collect all of the eggs but all of the birds get treats when it time to collect the eggs. Sorry about my rambling. Good luck on you hatch. Isn't it fun...Cmom-- have a question for you. I've been using my LG as a hatcher. Did that all last summer and this year too. Here is what I noticed.
WHen my chicks take a couple days to hatch, and I have 20-30, or more eggs in for lockdown. THe tempmight rise beyond the initial 99.5 temp when empty. It might go up 2 degrees, so I turn it down a hair.
THen as the days roll on, I have to remove the 24 hour poults/chicks, and by the end the temp has dropped to 97 or even 95.
Do you think this is a typical performance by the LG? THat it doesn't adjust to the changed, just keep putting out a set amount of heat?
Wondered if you had experienced this or had suggestion to get around this temp fluctuation.
Cmom- this is my first hatch. I'm hatching now, so the humidity is up to mid 70's to 80's and temp is between 101 and 102. Should I try to get the temp down some? That seems high to me. I incubated at 30%. Trying to keep all this straight is making me dizzy