Temp and humidity in my LG

[rwwjsw]

I just set about 40 eggs in my LG I had the temp pretty stable at 99 degrees when I set my eggs. It is now bouncing all over from 98 to 102 cannot keep it any where near stable. I have it in a room where no light can get to it and the temp in the room stays about 65 all the time. Then to go along with the temp I am also having trouble with the humidity in it. It is never more than about 40 I am putting water in it all the time and I have a small sponge in it to help. I went through and taped over about ½ of the 1 air hole in it to try and help keep the humidity up.
Is it really important to keep the humidity up all the way through the incubation? I thought I read somewhere that it really needs to be up just before hatch.
Does any one have any ideas about how I can try and stable this out? Or is this the nature of this beast.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

I have an LG, forced air with turner. When I set it with eggs, the larger the clutch the longer it takes for the bator to get back to temp (temp drops when the eggs are added because the eggs start sucking up the heat). I do not mess with the temp for 24-48 hours after I put in the eggs - let the eggs warm and the bator stablize.


Humidity - have you calibrated your hydrometer? How much humidity are you wanting in there for the first 18 days?