I would turn it off and get that humidity up to 60-65% depending on your environment, in my experience when I raise humidity it drops temp. Make sure you can hang out and monitor after changing any variables though. You working with a still or forced air?
Yes, that little crack lets in air and the baby needs to acclimate to breathing, it takes hundreds of pecks to make that first hole and they are often very tired after they break through so they nap. Watch the humidity, too high and water will build up inside the air cell, too dry and they get stuck. 60-65% seems to be a safe zone for most people. Another member had a nice formula for humidity for your individual climate (jnjmanning) if i can find it before you do i will re-post it. Resist the urge to remove chicks from the incubator for the 1st 24hrs, it will mess with your humidity and even if the baby's are knocking the other eggs their peeping encourages other to hatch.
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its on 99.0 and humidity at 60 cant get it highter. will put them off the turner tonight so i can candle them. and then lock down for the week end lol
. Remember a hen when she broods pulls her feathers from her greats and raises her body temp almost 2 full points kinda like a forced fever BUT the eggs only make contact on the top then she turns them to evenly distribute her heat so the egg is only heated on one side at a time when she rolls them she feels the cool side on her bare Brest and stops to let them warm it all evens out at about 100. Something even though her body temp is 102-103 a forced air incubator heats the entire egg evenly top to bottom a still air is always cooler on the bottom of the egg as heat rises so the process of confection takes over with fresh cool air entering the bottom of the bator as warm air rises and pulls cool outside air in so i guess to answer the question no a hen is not like a still air by rolling her clutch constantly she warms the egg evenly where the still air does not, this is why a forced air bator will typically see a 30% increase in hatch rates it more closely mimics what takes place in nature just sayingok............so I am incubating peachick eggs for the first timeand everyone says that hens so it best! but I dont trust my broody hens right now as they are all 1st timers
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SOOOOOO, I did an exparment about egg tempature... I took my tempature gage and put it under two different sitting hens... it measured 103.4 for one and 104.8 for the other.... I then took the tempature inside my bator (it is a Brinsea 20 Advanced) and I have hatched in it twice ........
the first time the tempature was factory set at 99.5 but the chicks were all three to five days late, so I bumped the temp from 99.5 to 99.8 and the 2nd hatch the small eggs started to peep the day they were due (I set pm and had my first peep am.... so maybe 12 hours late) and the average and larger sized ones took up to three more days for the last ones to hatch..... this time I have it set at 100.0 ..... as it seems to run cool but other wise is great and I had very good hatches in it and the eggs were even shipped....
(SORRY!
So same probe and under the hens was 3-4 degrees higher....
The idea here was not for the actual tempature reading as they can be different from gage to gage .... but to see the different in tempature between a sitting hen and my incubator......
My understanding is that still air (which is what a hen would be....right?) should be set higher by 2-3 degrees than a forced air (which is what mine is)..... Am I Right Here???but this still seems to me that my bator is STILL running cool..... or my gage is messed up .....
ANY THOUGHTS?????
. Remember a hen when she broods pulls her feathers from her breast and raises her body temp almost 2 full points kinda like a forced fever BUT the eggs only make contact on the top then she turns them to evenly distribute her heat so the egg is only heated on one side at a time when she rolls them she feels the cool side on her bare Brest and stops to let them warm it all evens out at about 100. Something even though her body temp is 102-103 a forced air incubator heats the entire egg evenly top to bottom a still air is always cooler on the bottom of the egg as heat rises so the process of confection takes over with fresh cool air entering the bottom of the bator as warm air rises and pulls cool outside air in so i guess to answer the question no a hen is not like a still air by rolling her clutch constantly she warms the egg evenly where the still air does not, this is why a forced air bator will typically see a 30% increase in hatch rates it more closely mimics what takes place in nature just sayingok............so I am incubating peachick eggs for the first time
SOOOOOO, I did an exparment about egg tempature... I took my tempature gage and put it under two different sitting hens... it measured 103.4 for one and 104.8 for the other.... I then took the tempature inside my bator (it is a Brinsea 20 Advanced) and I have hatched in it twice ........
the first time the tempature was factory set at 99.5 but the chicks were all three to five days late, so I bumped the temp from 99.5 to 99.8 and the 2nd hatch the small eggs started to peep the day they were due (I set pm and had my first peep am.... so maybe 12 hours late) and the average and larger sized ones took up to three more days for the last ones to hatch..... this time I have it set at 100.0 ..... as it seems to run cool but other wise is great and I had very good hatches in it and the eggs were even shipped....
(SORRY!
So same probe and under the hens was 3-4 degrees higher....
The idea here was not for the actual tempature reading as they can be different from gage to gage .... but to see the different in tempature between a sitting hen and my incubator......
My understanding is that still air (which is what a hen would be....right?) should be set higher by 2-3 degrees than a forced air (which is what mine is)..... Am I Right Here???
ANY THOUGHTS?????
that makes sence
Thankyou my friend! How are things over at your farm? This thread is so overwhelmingly fluid so I haven't been able to catch up at all! There were like 50 new pages since the last time i checked, lol!
Check the June thread madam I think that's where she posted itOMGoodness! I have been combing this thread for the humidity formula Jnjmanning posted a few days back!!!! Help?
