Storing up eggs for my next hatch... *taps fingers impatiently* Advice

[jfulcher]

I sure hope this next hatch goes better.... Any tips on how to improve my hatch rate next time around? I have 8 days till I put them in, and I want any and all advice and tips...

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

calibrate your hygrometer and thermometer. both of mine were off with the last batch and I had some gross, mushy chickens and half drowned in the shell.

 

[jfulcher]

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okay huuuge question HOW do you calibrate a digital hygrometer a thermometer???

 

[yinepu]

For the hygrometer.. take a bottle cap of table salt (some places insist it should be pure.. no iodine ..i never really saw much of a difference).. and add enough water to make it like wet sand..
place the bottle cap and the hygrometer inside a plastic zip-loc bag and seal it.. let it sit for 24 hours.. it SHOULD read 75%

for the thermometer all I did was use one I KNOW is accurate and place them side by side.. let them sit for a few hours and check the reading on both.. there is a method you can do with ice/boiling water.. but I never found the need to go that route since i knew for certain I had an accurate one to use as a comparisson

 

[jfulcher]

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k I will have to do that.. I have 2 thermometers both reading the same temp right now. I know my hospital thermometer (the third one I randomly throw in) is also reading the same.. So I think the temp is fine.. But I will make sure..