Topic of the Week - Incubating eggs

[TLCMidMichigan]

I just got back to raising chickens again after a 3 year absence.
I have a 4250 Farm Innovator unit. Very sinple and efficient. I had one of the yellow Chinese units, and had trouble making it work. Even my daughter got it to working, but it didn't stay up to speed.
I am raising BLRW (Blue-laced-red- Wyandotte's). I like the size and color. Hopefully about 25-30 chicks. The shipping of eggs leaves a lot to be desired (USPS).

 

[my spoiled chickens]

I have a "farm innovators" Bator and me and my siblings have hatched many an egg in it. I also got a new incubator from my older brother for Christmas and its brand is Okkobi and so far so good

 

[Marieaa70]

On day 21 , nothing showing yet, 1 egg moved that s it,

 

[DonyaQuick]

My most recent incubator tool is an uninterrupted power supply (UPS). The power grid in my area seems to be becoming rather worse in the past year. While I now have both a portable battery generator and a gas generator to deal with powering critical devices through full outages, I have the new problem of being plagued by little brownouts this spring. Frequent brownouts in past areas I've lived with crummy grids have killed more electronics for me over time than anything else; computer power supply units and chargers, lights, aquarium pumps, etc. Last thing I need is for my incubator to get toasted in a similar way. So, this year I plugged my incubator into a spare UPS I had sitting around to try to guard it against that kind of electrical abuse. Interestingly, that old and cheap UPS isn't able to run my satellite internet rig or any other substantial piece of electronics - so I felt like it was a big waste of money after I first got it and it's been sitting collecting dust for a while, but it apparently has quite sufficient juice for a Nurture Right 360. I have regularly been hearing the UPS click over to rely on its battery as the lights in the room are getting dim.

 

[Kkoleckar]

I’m going to be starting my first hatch process tomorrow after I pick up my last breed of chicken eggs. I’ve had my incubator running since yesterday (nurture right 360) and have a hygrometer/thermometer. Temp is between 99.5-100. Humidity is at about 50-55%.
Am I at a good spot number wise for humidity and temp? I know everyone has a different opinion but I’m terrified of drowning the chicks from too much humidity.

In my experience that humidity range has worked great for me. I’ve incubated chicks at 70% the whole incubation period due to a difficult incubator, and saw a much lower success rate at that high of humidity as opposed to the 50-55% range. You definitely want to get it to to the 70-75% range during lock down but in my opinion you should be good at that % until then.