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My humidity always seems to spike as the chicks start hatching and then normalizes some. Maybe that has something to do with my hatcher being homemade.
Mine is a Brinsea, and it spikes too when the chicks hatch. They are wet and this adds to the humidity I am sure. But when I add water (before lockdown) the humidity tends to spike. When I add the water it is warm water from the tap. I am just afraid that during the time period when the humidity should be 40-45% and I add water and it spikes to 85% (or more) and would stay at this level if I did not open the lid...is this okay and it will eventually normalize itself? or should I continue to do my lid burping to get the humidity down - again, this is before lockdown and upping humidity.
I wonder...how long would it take for this to normalize on its own?
Maybe I should be adding water that is a bit cooler?
I think I will do a test and run the incubator empty and see what happens.
I will let you know.
If you add water that is warmer the 100F you will get a spike in humidity when added. If you add water that is 80-90F you will not get the humidity spike but the temp will drop just a tad til the water gets to be incubator temp.
there should be 2 "trays" for water... a small center one and a larger outer one. Normally the water is only put in the small one during main incubation, then put in both for lockdown. If my humidity got to 85% during regular incubation I'd "burp" it too. But I think the spikes are because your adding over 100F water. try adding water that is just cool to the touch. that should be about 80-90F.
Humidity will always spike when chick hatches. don't worry about that as long as the %'s were correct before hatching then all should be fine.
My humidity always seems to spike as the chicks start hatching and then normalizes some. Maybe that has something to do with my hatcher being homemade.
Mine is a Brinsea, and it spikes too when the chicks hatch. They are wet and this adds to the humidity I am sure. But when I add water (before lockdown) the humidity tends to spike. When I add the water it is warm water from the tap. I am just afraid that during the time period when the humidity should be 40-45% and I add water and it spikes to 85% (or more) and would stay at this level if I did not open the lid...is this okay and it will eventually normalize itself? or should I continue to do my lid burping to get the humidity down - again, this is before lockdown and upping humidity.
I wonder...how long would it take for this to normalize on its own?
Maybe I should be adding water that is a bit cooler?
I think I will do a test and run the incubator empty and see what happens.
I will let you know.
If you add water that is warmer the 100F you will get a spike in humidity when added. If you add water that is 80-90F you will not get the humidity spike but the temp will drop just a tad til the water gets to be incubator temp.
there should be 2 "trays" for water... a small center one and a larger outer one. Normally the water is only put in the small one during main incubation, then put in both for lockdown. If my humidity got to 85% during regular incubation I'd "burp" it too. But I think the spikes are because your adding over 100F water. try adding water that is just cool to the touch. that should be about 80-90F.
Humidity will always spike when chick hatches. don't worry about that as long as the %'s were correct before hatching then all should be fine.
