Need help... QUICK!!

[silkiechick05]

I have a Hovabator Genesis. Up until this point it was doing fantastically holding temp at 99.5 and humidity at 45%. Now the temperature is at 96.6˚! And the humidity is up to 66%!

What in the world is going on? It is on toggle five, which it has been throughout the incubation period thus far.


Please help~

 

[trilyn]

Sometimes when the embryos develop into actual chicks, the temp/humidity will spike. Hang on though, total newbie at this, somebody else will be along soon!

ETA: whoops, I totally misread your post! Sorry, I got the temp numbers reversed somehow!

 

[Redcatcher]

Err...96* is lower than 99.5*....Not trying to be a wise guy (True, that the tempererature will go up a degree or two with the chicks generating heat/energy prior to hatching). My guess is that the temperature dropped in your house or wherever the incubator is. You would think that the thermostat would compensate for it, but that is not the case with the majority of incubators. It would effect the humidity as well inside the incubator. It sounds as if you simply need to increase the temperature. It is not that uncommon to have to do it throughout the hatch.

 

[silkiechick05]

Redcatcher:

Yes, I am having an issue with the temp being too low. Do you think I should go ahead and move it up to toggle six??

 

[Redcatcher]

That is what I would do, but if the temperature rises in the house again, you will have to keep an eye on it or it will get too hot. It sounds like the weather pattern we are having here....Upper 30's at night and nearly 70* during the day.

 

[silkiechick05]

I moved it up at five thirty this morning and by 7 it was 100.5. That was worrying me especially since we are leaving, so I moved it back down. Hopefully it will stay in the mid 99's where it was before. We just had a cold front move in...