Quote: I already numbered and X'd and O'd them, I was wondering if I should go ahead and check the air cell now or wait until the 7th day of incubating? Also, it should not go to 95 degrees when the eggs are in there right? Should be 98-99 degrees.
I check/candle my eggs before they go in just to make sure everything is ok and there's no hairline fractures in the shell or anything. When you get them in, give the temps a few hours to even out before you adjust because it will be different once you get the eggs in there. Once they (the eggs) have time to come to temp, if it's still lower than 99.5 then adjust it slightly and give it time to regulate. Do this until you get it to 99.5 and it holds there. If you get a bit of that humidity out, you should see the temps even out too.I already numbered and X'd and O'd them
I would have left it at the 80% maybe cracked the top a couple minutes if it concerned me being that high (which it wouldn't). I run mine at 75% at lockdown and it does go above 80% during hatch. (Though not for long as I use that as the best time to clean out egg shells...lol)
Type of incubators make a difference. I don't know the why of the physics, but they do. One girl was trying to hit my goal of 75%. She's like I finally got it there, and puts up a pic. She was using a smaller home made cooler bator and you could barely see in the windows...lol Apparently you don't need that high of humidity I the cooler bators either. I told her to drop it down, she was good...lol In my bator it can hit 80 without causing my windows to condinsate...much more than that and they will. You would think that 70% is 70% but it has different effects in different bators.
I would, just to make sure that it is going to hold steady at a set temp.
