There has to be a thread for incubator recs...

[chickfused]

My humidity hit 60% today for about 45 mins. Will they be ok? (We are experiencing wild temp fluctations, which is causing humidity fluctation.)

 

[Weeg]

My humidity hit 60% today for about 45 mins. Will they be ok? (We are experiencing wild temp fluctations, which is causing humidity fluctation.)

Yep! I had some major humidity fluctuation in my first hatch. Hatch rate wasn't good, but that was because of shipped eggs, not humidity. 50% of the eggs made it until close to lockdown.
If temp/humidity fluctuates for a short amount of time in the beginning its not that big of a deal. Your babies will be just fine.

 

[Weeg]

My humidity hit 60% today for about 45 mins. Will they be ok? (We are experiencing wild temp fluctations, which is causing humidity fluctation.)

Also, the NR is really great, but since its only plastic it doesn't have the best temperature/humidity installation. You want to keep it away from a window, or any where were the temp will fluctuate in your house. NR's are very sensitive to surrounding temp/humidity.

 

[chickfused]

Yeah, I'm not sure where I'm going to put it once there's babies. I imagine it would also be quite sensitive to cats

 

[chickfused]

Welp, I set 12 eggs. 3 were infertile and one died by day 7. I candled them for the second time today. (11 days before hatch) and 2 more had quit while one that looked mostly viable had an egg that was completely full of hairline cracks. It wasn't moving anymore and had barely any veins, so I pulled it. It sucks because it was alive 2 days ago. I will candle one more time in 3 days, and hopefully we'll have a couple of babies.