What's the best way to add water to a incubator on lockdown?

[TheBeardie]

Since I'm in Florida, a place that has naturally high humidity, I've been adding small amounts of water with a spray bottle. No, I don't directly spray the eggs, I spray down in to the trough through one of the empty egg holders. I'm currently on day 13 but, when lockdown comes how should I add extra water to the incubator? Snake a aquarium air tube into the water trough? Or something else?

 

[chickenmama109]

Well there should be plungs on top of the incubator and for lock down you will need to take them out so the chicks can breath but I had the same problem when I was in lock down so what I did was take a syringe and a straw, take the straw and put it in the hole where the plung use to be, then fill the syringe with water and put the water onto the straw, and you can just point the straw where you want the water to go. Hope I helped good luck with your hatch

 

[oregonkat]

Aquarium tubing into the troughs works well. The other way is to put a piece of sponge in the incubator and put the tubing onto the sponge. I don't think you are going to need either. If you are using instruments that you trust, an independent hygrometer and thermometer, I would be willing to bet that in your location, filling one of the troughs should be quite adequate. Aim for about 60%. You probably know this already but remember that humidity depends on surface area of water not volume.

 

[pennyJo1960]

or a straw will work in a pinch

 

[ChickensAndYoga]

I’m also in Florida. I incubate dry and only add one wet sponge at first internal pip if I hear it, or external pip if I never hear the internals. The one time I ran with a small dish of water all but 2 didn’t hatch

 

[Mosey2003]

I use the tubing through the notch and a 60cc cannula tip syringe.

 

[aart]

I use a siphon bottle: