Lockdown question, do I lower the temp too??

[silkies mama]

Tomorrow is lockdown. Boy that took forever to get here. I need to know, what temp do I lower my incubator to?

I have a forced air incubator. Its digital and I kept it at 99.5. I kept the humidity to about 35% most of the time. I read somewhere that since the humidity goes up during lockdown, the heat should go down a little bit. So if thats true, what temp do I lower to?

I`m hatching, one turkey egg, about 10 silkies and a few brahmas. Thanks for any input.

 

[callieisspooky]

I would love to know the answer to this as well. I lowered the temp for my turkey eggs in my forced air incubator from 99.5 to 99, but that was just a guess. I read this article which I found partially helpful: http://www.porterturkeys.com/egghatchingtips.htm

Unfortunately, when he discusses lowering the temp upon raising humidity, he does not specify still or forced air temp.

 

[gimmie birdies]

.5 degree is not very much. if you didn't lower it it may not make much diff. I dry hatch my still air bator eggs, okay after the internal pip- I may toss in a 1/2 wrung out paper towel. but I just keep the box closed. if you ever do open the box, you can feel it is moist in the box with out doing anything.

the healthiest chicks hatch first, and if a chick doesn't hatch, it can be blamed on fishing the newly hatched chick out of the bator as the reason the rest didn't hatch but I think it is too easy to place the blame there., I had it way too moist one time I had a yougurt cup of water in my bator, on post hatch I opened unhatched eggs I could tell it was too moist (yes I had plenty of air holes) so my worrying about not enough water killed my chicks.