- Feb 13, 2013
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It is very simple to hutch chickens eggs. (Home made incubator) i adjust the temperature, that was quite rough cause i had to make adjustments while i was incubating eggs. First clutch of eggs hatched 1 day early (lost most of them), so i just decrease little very little the temperature. For humidity i don't have a hydrometer i have a glass of water in my incubator. at day 18 when i stop turning the eggs i open up the incubator when i see too match moisture dripping in there 1 time the day make it work for me. Moister goes away when i hand turning my eggs moister increases as i don't open the incubator, simple. I have see many videos and tutorial to put large plates with water under the eggs, the humidity in some of them is way too hi the eggs are fool of moisture, Never saw a broody chicken wet her eggs. For me my hatching rate is 100%, except if i have an infertile egg, You must clean your hands every time you handle the eggs clean the incubator and for gods shake don't increase your humidity to much. If you starting to see water drops in the incubator the humidity is TOO HIGH, i have try with commercial incubators and none of my thermometer or hygrometer output the same values. Anyway i think that you losing the chicks because of a virus or the low nutrition of the eggs. I' m in day 19 this time, i have in my incubator some eggs too small that don't have the criteria for getting them incubate. I post some pictures again in Monday or Tuesday with my new chicks. I have 19 eggs but 2 was not fertile so know i have 17.