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KBrasby

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Hello from northeast Colorado. I live with my family on the plains of Colorado and we have 13 acres about 5 miles from the nearest town, so we enjoy the freedom to raise chickens, goats, rabbits, and more. I've raised Leghorns for several years for the eggs but I decided this summer to try other chicken breeds. It'll be nice to have a little color when I gather eggs!

I also have been playing with incubating. I do have a question. I bought a Brinsea Advanced Incubator after my first incubator failed midway through the incubation cycle. On the first incubation with the Brinsea, when I got to lockdown, I had a horrible time keeping the humidity at 65%. Our air is very dry here and, even with 2 sponges in the incubator, the humidity would spike to 65-75% but in 12 hours it was under 40%. I just kept adding water but I wonder if someone in these dry climates has suggestions for me to get the humidity where it needs to be. Ideas? Thank you so much!

Kathy Brasby
Colorado
 
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You may want to try posting this on this thread. Hopefully someone there will have good advice for you: https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/5/incubating-hatching-eggs Good luck!
 
Hi Kathy, very nice to meet you. If the room you keep the incubator in is very dry, you may want to run a room humidifier . Hopefully this will make it easier for your incubator to keep up.
 
Hi Kathy, welcome to BYC!

Some of our regular greeters have a lot of incubating experience and may be along later. In addition to the link already provided, you might want to try posting on your state thread. Other CO members may be able to help you out with the challenges your climate presents:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/68894/colorado

Just out of curiosity, what breed(s) of chicks are you trying to hatch? Good luck with your hatch, hope it goes well for you.

Thanks for joining us!
 
Hi :welcome Kathy

Glad you could join the flock! Do you have the octagon or the mini? As the surface area of water decreases the humidity will drop. It does not sound too bad that it took 12 hours for the humidity to drop. Rather than sponges you could use cloth to make the area bigger. I wouldn't worry about the spikes in humidity that will be fine. I've had mine in the 90% range when lots of chicks hatch at once will no ill affects.

The octagon is easier to add cloth to as you can lay the cloth in the water wells soak them and then top the wells up so the cloth keeps wicking the water up.

Enjoy BYC and all the chicken chat :frow
 
Thank you for your kind responses. I will post this question also on the incubating-hatching eggs forum. I have a barnyard mixture of eggs for the next try with everything from chocolate brown to green. I'm not worried about the spikes in humidity but in the low levels. I like the idea of a cloth. That may hold more humidity than the sponges. Thank you all for your warm welcome! Oh, forgot to answer this: I have the Brinsea Octagon.
 
I'm sorry. I think I hit the wrong button in replying. I didn't mean to start a new thread.
 
I do have the Octagon. That's a great idea. I will definitely try that next time. Thank you.
 
No problem, I hope you have a great hatch. I will just have a quick look, I'm sure there is a pic on here on how best to add the cloth to wells for more humidity.
 

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