Styrofoam Incubators Club

[LaPoulet]

No problem! There are so many knowledgeable people on here, there is all the information you need I drowned a hatch last year, then I went with the dry method and got the best hatch I'd ever had. Are you using the acurite "humidity monitor"? I've used that one and it's great. 
If you've incubated at 30-35% a lockdown humidity of 75% is perfectly fine. In fact, it gives you some cushion in case you need to open the incubator. 
Welcome to the club!  
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Would you take a pic of the acu-rite guage.Thanks

 

[MeepBeep]

This is a great little temperature and humidity gauge that is easy to source (carried at most Walmarts) and affordable, not 100% accurate but close enough for incubator use... I still like to keep an analog thermometer in at all times as a confirmation but I have found this one to be only a degree off at most, and even if the humidity reading on this is off 5-10% at times it's not a deal breaker it still gives you a reference point... I also like the fact it logs 24 hour highs and lows, giving you a piece of mind of how the last day went...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/AcuRite-Digital-Humidity-and-Temperature-Monitor/16888914

 

[LaPoulet]

This is a great little temperature and humidity gauge that is easy to source (carried at most Walmarts) and affordable, not 100% accurate but close enough for incubator use... I still like to keep an analog thermometer in at all times as a confirmation but I have found this one to be only a degree off at most, and even if the humidity reading on this is off 5-10% at times it's not a deal breaker it still gives you a reference point... I also like the fact it logs 24 hour highs and lows, giving you a piece of mind of how the last day went...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/AcuRite-Digital-Humidity-and-Temperature-Monitor/16888914

Thanks

 

[beetandsteet]

WOW thank you to everyone for keeping this thread going and helping people out during my absence!
Our house flooded with these "historic" rains early Monday morning and this week has been a whirlwind! There was not a dry spot within a mile of the house. Thankfully I was able to get all chickens to safety (there were some near-misses!) except for my favorite Welsumer pullet Ellis, who drowned. Of course the flood water was filthy (think overflowing septic tanks, worms, and oil/other fluids from neighboring workshops) so I've got the flock on probiotics to help offset whatever junk they ingested.

 

[BusyBearMama]

So it's just one of those years and we are just... Just... Just putting together the whole chick thing for the season. Roosters in the pens, incubators running but not stable, found all the turners, brooder A clean and I'm finding all the waterers and hopefully the heater works still because well those things are pricey... Brooder B is clean but we won't need that till any chicks are off the lamps. We use farm innovators & hova bator styrobators and I am sitting here trying to remember exact things... Every time I go to do anything right now I swear my brain is like mush right now.. Anyway what temps are you using and how are you doing your humidity with these models? I have read a million things on here, books and so on over the years just looking for some this is what I do successfully things. We are psyched to begin but it's already nearly may!!! So in the morning I need to make sure they're stabilizing at the right temp and so on hehe, we are doing blue English Orpington over speckled Sussex kind of just because for our first batch and I have no clue what that will yeild really but they should be decent size birds, it's a fertility check I have a little over 20 eggs and and more tomorrow and then I will go through them and see what we have, sooo can't wait to see things moving along. Will be nice to hopefully get some chicks before too long!

 

[beetandsteet]

This is a great little temperature and humidity gauge that is easy to source (carried at most Walmarts) and affordable, not 100% accurate but close enough for incubator use... I still like to keep an analog thermometer in at all times as a confirmation but I have found this one to be only a degree off at most, and even if the humidity reading on this is off 5-10% at times it's not a deal breaker it still gives you a reference point... I also like the fact it logs 24 hour highs and lows, giving you a piece of mind of how the last day went...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/AcuRite-Digital-Humidity-and-Temperature-Monitor/16888914

I've used this thermometer/humidity combo also with great success. And keeping an analog thermometer in conjunction with a digital is always important because of possible battery failure.

 

[raisingdaisies]

WOW thank you to everyone for keeping this thread going and helping people out during my absence!
Our house flooded with these "historic" rains early Monday morning and this week has been a whirlwind! There was not a dry spot within a mile of the house. Thankfully I was able to get all chickens to safety (there were some near-misses!) except for my favorite Welsumer pullet Ellis, who drowned. Of course the flood water was filthy (think overflowing septic tanks, worms, and oil/other fluids from neighboring workshops) so I've got the flock on probiotics to help offset whatever junk they ingested.

Oh goodness! That sounds pretty nasty.

 

[LaPoulet]

 
WOW thank you to everyone for keeping this thread going and helping people out during my absence! 
Our house flooded with these "historic" rains early Monday morning and this week has been a whirlwind! There was not a dry spot within a mile of the house. Thankfully I was able to get all chickens to safety (there were some near-misses!) except for my favorite Welsumer pullet Ellis, who drowned. Of course the flood water was filthy (think overflowing septic tanks, worms, and oil/other fluids from neighboring workshops) so I've got the flock on probiotics to help offset whatever junk they ingested. 

Oh goodness!   That sounds pretty nasty.  

So sorry to hear that. That's horrible! Praying for you and your family.

 

[SpinningJenny]

WOW thank you to everyone for keeping this thread going and helping people out during my absence!
Our house flooded with these "historic" rains early Monday morning and this week has been a whirlwind! There was not a dry spot within a mile of the house. Thankfully I was able to get all chickens to safety (there were some near-misses!) except for my favorite Welsumer pullet Ellis, who drowned. Of course the flood water was filthy (think overflowing septic tanks, worms, and oil/other fluids from neighboring workshops) so I've got the flock on probiotics to help offset whatever junk they ingested.

Oh gods! What a horrible mess! I'm so sorry about Ellis. Hope the flock cleaned up ok, and you don't have too much property damage.

 

[beetandsteet]

So sorry to hear that. That's horrible! Praying for you and your family.

Oh goodness! That sounds pretty nasty.

Oh gods! What a horrible mess! I'm so sorry about Ellis. Hope the flock cleaned up ok, and you don't have too much property damage.

Thank y'all very much! Everything will work out fine in the end. We have great friends from church who have loaned us a camper to live in while the house is being basically reconstructed (the walls, commodes, shower, cabinets, etc. Amazing what just a half foot of water will do!).
I was devastated about Ellis. She was such a sweetheart and I had hatched her from the egg, fixed her splay leg and everything. But I was grateful not to lose more. Trying to rescue nearly 50 chickens is quite an adventure! They're still healthy as far as I can tell, and trying to dust bathe in mud