too high humidity!?

[YooHwa]

I have seen people dealing with too low humidity..
but for me, it's TOO HIGH!

I have hovabator 1602n and I fill the middle P shaped tray only with water.
But my hygrometer is always showing humidity between 60 to 75!!!!!
I opened up the two vents but it goes down about 2 to 3%

I did salt test on my hygrometer. It pointed 71% after 12 hours.
I have fan in my incubator.. (if anybody needed to know.)


please help.. my eggs are suppose to be here from few days from now and I really want to make this perfect

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[zatsdeb]

where do you have your incubator set up? I keep mine in my master bathroom and don't put much water in it until it is time to hatch. I would make sure you don't put much water in there, or change rooms, must be a lot of humidity in your house. set your hygrometer in your room and see what the humidity in the air is before you put your incubator in there. I found the best place for mine out of any direct sunlight, and in a room where people don't come and go and can't bump it or create any drafts.

 

[Gypsy07]

Well, your hygrometer is almost accurate, so... it looks like you won't need to add water to the bator for your incubation. Take all the water out and dry the inside of the water trays with paper towel. Wait a few hours and then see what your hygrometer says. If it's high enough, say 30-45%, you can run your incubation like that, and you won't need to add water till lockdown. This is called dry incubation, and loads of people have great hatches with this method. It doesn't actually mean completely dry, it just means that you have high enough ambient humidity wherever you are that your humidity is high enough already and you don't need to add water to raise it to the right level. Search the forum for dry incubation or dry hatches and you'll find out more about it.

If you take out the water and it's still reading too high then you might have to put your bator in a drier room!

 

[beckim5]

Okay, this is a stretch and I haven't researched it AT ALL, but when my husband dropped his cell phone in the water they suggested putting it in a bag of dry white rice because they said the rice would absorb the humidity. you may want to try putting your hygrometer in a bag with some rice to see if that reduces the humidity in the air. If, in fact, it does, then you could try lining the bottom of your bator with rice instead of water in order to reduce the humidity - then you could always add water later on if you needed to! Again - I haven't researched this and am not sure it's valid, but it couldn't hurt to try (I'd do it myself but my hygrometer is currently in lockdown)!

Wishing you the best!

 

[zatsdeb]

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don't know if I would put rice in the incubator, any humidity at all will in time cause moisture on the rice causing it to swell and then the chance for it to mold, or ferment.

 

[fatbassetvineyards]

I just dealt with the same problem. I overloaded it with water. It was up in the 80% humidity.

It stayed there through lockdown and I thought I was going to lose my first hatch. Well, we got 19/26 eggs. Three were to dark to see, so kept them just in case. I am giving them one more day - 22 days today. I will be more careful with my water next time. I have 19 beautiful fuzzy chicks!

Denise

 

[debilorrah]

Ok. You do realize that the whole hygrometer thing is going to change dramatically when you set your eggs right? I never try to regulate anything until I set the eggs. The first few days and the last few days are the days that are the least likely for something to go wrong. 60% is a bit high, 75% WAY too high. Try just filling the bays with a 1/4 cup of water each when you set the eggs, then check after 8 hours. Go up from there.

 

[petunias212]

i didn't realize that - i was wondering why my bator seemed to run and stabilize so well during prepping but then when my eggs went in, it just went hay wire!!

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[debilorrah]

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LOL! Now you know. An empty bator in NO WAY resembles a full one.