Why is My Govee doing this?

[Ridgerunner]

I could not find a Govee incubator so I'm pretty sure the Govee is the instrument(s) to measure temperature and humidity. What incubator are you using? How do you control humidity with that incubator? Inquiring minds want to know. I control humidity with mine by filling different reservoirs in the base with water. Not all incubators work that way.

If I spill water when I refill those reservoirs the humidity can spike until all the surfaces that got wet dry out. Then the humidity stabilizes. What your graph looks like is when one of my reservoirs runs dry and needs to be refilled. That doesn't sound like a problem with the instrument at all, but like a problem with your actual humidity.

The wet surface area is what controls humidity, depth of the water doesn't matter except when it will all have evaporated. If you want to raise humidity with my type of incubator you need to add wet surface area. That could be putting water in a different reservoir, adding a sponge or paper towel in a way that it wicks water out of a reservoir and stays wet until that water evaporates, or add another water reservoir. Since you mentioned a sponge I'm guessing you have this type of incubator.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

I could not find a Govee incubator so I'm pretty sure the Govee is the instrument(s) to measure temperature and humidity. What incubator are you using? How do you control humidity with that incubator? Inquiring minds want to know. I control humidity with mine by filling different reservoirs in the base with water. Not all incubators work that way.

If I spill water when I refill those reservoirs the humidity can spike until all the surfaces that got wet dry out. Then the humidity stabilizes. What your graph looks like is when one of my reservoirs runs dry and needs to be refilled. That doesn't sound like a problem with the instrument at all, but like a problem with your actual humidity.

The wet surface area is what controls humidity, depth of the water doesn't matter except when it will all have evaporated. If you want to raise humidity with my type of incubator you need to add wet surface area. That could be putting water in a different reservoir, adding a sponge or paper towel in a way that it wicks water out of a reservoir and stays wet until that water evaporates, or add another water reservoir. Since you mentioned a sponge I'm guessing you have this type of incubator.

The incubator is like an off brand from amazon, and I put the govee in it.

You squirt the water though the two little holes and it goes into the bottom of the incubator.

I could put a sponge or two on the side if I ever need to.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

What incubator are you using?
Is there a place to add water?



Eh, maybe a bit.
I'd try to keep the humidity at about 50%.

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Is that for a turkey egg?

 

[Ridgerunner]

I've incubated turkey and chicken eggs together, started the turkey eggs a week early so hatch day would be the same. I used "chicken" conditions and had a good hatch, 5 out of 5 shipped turkey eggs. I don't know what you are supposed to do different from chicken to turkey eggs except for the extra week.

@aart can correct me but I think she was suggesting raising humidity for the remainder of this hatch to slow down moisture loss. I don't go by the size of the air cells so won't offer an opinion there.

 

[aart]

Is that for a turkey egg?

No chicken egg.
I believe turkeys take 28 days?

@aart can correct me but I think she was suggesting raising humidity for the remainder of this hatch to slow down moisture loss. I don't go by the size of the air cells so won't offer an opinion there.

Yes, that's what I meant.
Do you weigh yours @Ridgerunner ?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Do you weigh yours @Ridgerunner ?

Nope. With a little trial and error I determined where my sweet spot was, 40% average during incubation and above 65% during lockdown. I never had a really bad hatch I could tie to humidity so it was just tweaking.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

Nope. With a little trial and error I determined where my sweet spot was, 40% average during incubation and above 65% during lockdown. I never had a really bad hatch I could tie to humidity so it was just tweaking.

Because the humidity keeps fluctuating should I put some sponges or something in there so I can regulate the humidity more? I am such a newbie.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I don't understand how that incubator works in regards to humidity. Two holes to squirt water through? I just don't understand what they re trying to do. I can't see anything in those photos that help. Do you control the humidity with those buttons? I do notice it is set on pigeon, not chicken.

Did the incubator come with instructions? Do you have a make and model for that incubator so we can find instructions online? Some serial number, anything to do a search on. Can you link a website where you bought it?

It doesn't sound like one that used fixed reservoirs. What would keep the sponges wet if you put in sponges? Without knowing how it is supposed to work I hesitate to say do this or that.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

I don't understand how that incubator works in regards to humidity. Two holes to squirt water through? I just don't understand what they re trying to do. I can't see anything in those photos that help. Do you control the humidity with those buttons? I do notice it is set on pigeon, not chicken.

Did the incubator come with instructions? Do you have a make and model for that incubator so we can find instructions online? Some serial number, anything to do a search on. Can you link a website where you bought it?

It doesn't sound like one that used fixed reservoirs. What would keep the sponges wet if you put in sponges? Without knowing how it is supposed to work I hesitate to say do this or that.

It is not on the pigeon setting the light from the Constant temp light was just showing though. And yes you set the temp and humidity with the buttons on the top. The hole on the right goes to a little square reservoir and the hole on the left goes to a larger reservoir. I think you can also mist water though the hole on the top.

I tried to take pics of the reservoir, but I didn’t want to open the incubator for to long, sorry. It is not a still air because there is a fan in it. And the it is an auto turner. The instructions are really bad and I couldn’t find much about it online. Here is a pic of the 16 egg incubator but I bought the one that was 42 eggs.I couldn’t find the link because they might have sold out or taken it of the page. Maybe you could look it up on Amazon? Sorry about that. Hope this helps.

 

[Mellowmalt]

hope you realize on lockdown at day 18 you need to think about getting your humidity up to 65%. You might have to use more than that little watering bottle. My incubator can go through half a liter of water in a week.

Still unsure how it maintains humidity - in mine I just fill the bottom with water and monitor humidity myself which surely can be an option in this one too.