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[chris4kdz]

I actually just found out my digital is reading the outside humidity, it doesn't give me another reading for humidity. The temp reads both inside and outside. So all this time I've been thinking the digital has been telling me the humidity and it hasn't. My petco humidity monitor inside the bator is reading 45%_ no water inside at all. I don't know what to do.

Maybe you can post a thread on hatching. Somebody should know more than me. Im sure someone has been through that before. Wish I new more. If it was mine I would add a little water. See what happens..

 

[mrsguardian88]

Maybe you can post a thread on hatching. Somebody should know more than me. Im sure someone has been through that before. Wish I new more. If it was mine I would add a little water. See what happens.. 

I just asked and I'm thinking that using the dry method is the way I'm going to go. It's between 35-40% now, I'm going to keep it under 50% and raise it up to 60%-65% on lockdown!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I've hatched hundreds of chicks since I first started. Doesn't seem to matter much. Every hatch I angst over. Most ESPECIALLY the eggs I set for the county fair hatching display. My wife pokes at me every spring saying "Alan's broody again."

If you get a good hatch rate the first time you start working on refinements. Better temperature/humidity control, better breeding. It will be something.

 

[chris4kdz]

 

[mrsguardian88]

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I've hatched hundreds of chicks since I first started. Doesn't seem to matter much. Every hatch I angst over. Most ESPECIALLY the eggs I set for the county fair hatching display. My wife pokes at me every spring saying "Alan's broody again."

If you get a good hatch rate the first time you start working on refinements. Better temperature/humidity control, better breeding. It will be something.

I've been told that I am being too overbearing but I just can't help but worry! Thanks for sharing, at least I know that I'm not alone here! I love BYC!

 

[chris4kdz]

 

[SavvyPractical]

I just set 22 eggs of unknown origin, which I am calling surprise eggs and one double yolked ee/ee. This is my third hatch, first two I set a week apart, and if it could go wrong.... it did. I am dry incubating now. My chicks from the last two hatches were swollen/sticky and sadly nothing happened until day 25. All of that should really be another post, but I am hoping for a better outcome this time. The only thing I know about these eggs is that they are brown and speckled. I bought them from the feed store, and broke one out of each dozen to check for fertility. Things look good, so I am ready for the impatient waiting to begin

 

[chris4kdz]

Now that pretty cool not knowing. Good luck