Need Some Help With an LG Incubator

[Pyxis]

So, I recently bought a new LG because my homemade styrofoam incubator died and I usually have more eggs going than I can fit into my brinsea 20, so I need a second incubator. I had an old model LG that I only use as a hatcher because it drowns chicks if they are incubated in it all the way through. I was hoping that that was a problem specific to just that particular incubator but apparently not. The new one drowned most of my chicks again, even though I practice dry hatching and never added a drop of water to the incubator during incubation. My question is, would poking some extra vent holes in the incubator solve this problem, or should I just steal the heating element out and put it in my old homemade incubator that never has problems like this? I'd rather keep the LG because the turner wouldn't fit in my homemade incubator.

 

[sdm111]

IMO if you did not add water then the relative humidity in the air was too high so Making holes will not solve the problem. Maybe put a dehumidifier in the room with the incubator

 

[Pyxis]

I should also mention that I hatch in the same room with the brinsea, with the same method, and all the eggs in there that had the same hatch date as the ones that drowned in the LG all hatched perfectly, which is what confuses me. I figured that if the relative humidity was too high those eggs would have done badly too.

 

[sdm111]

May still dehumidify the room and move the brinsea the other incubator is irrelevant you're gonna have to rectify the high humidity in the styrofoam one and if it has no water it's coming from somewhere ie: the air but like I said it's just my opinion maybe someone else has a better answer.

 

[Pyxis]

Well, I did just put in my air conditioner and that dehumidifies the room, so maybe that will help.