Lock Down Questions

[Trux]

you need more water surface area if you can't get it higher

 

[Shadow Source]

Okay so when I first put the water in the humidity went up to 65%. Then it dropped. Strange, I will see what I can do.

 

[alexisrambles]

I wish I could send you my humidity! We have too much--avg 80. In fact I have dehumidifiers all over my house lol. I just turned one off because my chicks were guzzling their water.

 

[Trux]

do you have a hydrometer to tell you what the humidity is outside your incubator?
Might be low outside humidity is sucking it out of your bator

 

[Mosey2003]

You can also run a small humidifier near the air intakes.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I agree with the humidifier idea, also I use sponges. Sponges in water in loaf pans.

 

[Trux]

Ok I apologize as I see you have a very arid climate, so IMO it is sucking the humidity out of your incubator. I live in SoCal and our humidity varies, and knowing this I got one of these and it works great. It has sensors ao when the humidity drops below the setpoint it kicks on and brings it back up
https://incubatorwarehouse.com/humidikit.html

 

[Shadow Source]

Okay, I have an update. I am starting to question the hydrometer, it is a incubator warehouse Hydrometer, that comes with the Hova Bator. There is little water droplets condensing on the windows. The hydrometer has not changed, and it says 55%. I put the eggs into lockdown on day 16, because these are bantam eggs. what do you suggest I do? Should I think that the Hydrometer is off? or should I add more water?

 

[Shadow Source]

I live in a very diverse climate, it rains a ton in early spring, then from about May - June it will sometimes rain. But then when summer hits, it hardly ever rains. Then fall hits, and it dose not rain until the end of October, then it does nothing but poor rain until the end of November, then we get 2 feet of snow in December through March, and repeat.

 

[Shadow Source]

I wish I could send you my humidity! We have too much--avg 80. In fact I have dehumidifiers all over my house lol. I just turned one off because my chicks were guzzling their water.

Well, I went to the east coast once, and had trouble adjusting to the humidity, it felt stuffy, and crazy. I can only imagine what Louisiana fells like!! It never gets above 20% humidity here!