Why is My Govee doing this?

[turkey girl 0964]

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.

I am incubating turkey eggs, btw, so I have a week and a half until lockdown.

 

[aart]

I am incubating turkey eggs, btw, so I have a week and a half until lockdown.

Oh, well that would have been good to know from the get go.
Did I miss it?
So the diagram I gave your for air cell size does not apply,
but you could probably find one online for turkeys.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

Oh, well that would have been good to know from the get go.
Did I miss it?
So the diagram I gave your for air cell size does not apply,
but you could probably find one online for turkeys.

Yes, I found a pic of what the air sacs should look like in one of the articles. Sorry I wasn't clear that I was incubating turkey eggs.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

We live in AZ so it is dry DRY, the humidity inside and outside the house is making the humidity drop in the incubator to 15%- 20% at night. Could I put a humidifier in my room so at night the humidity is a bit higher? I hope the humidity drop at night is fine or else I might have to wake up in the middle of the nigh to fill it back up.

 

[aart]

We live in AZ so it is dry DRY, the humidity inside and outside the house is making the humidity drop in the incubator to 15%- 20% at night. Could I put a humidifier in my room so at night the humidity is a bit higher? I hope the humidity drop at night is fine or else I might have to wake up in the middle of the nigh to fill it back up.

Humidifier could be good.
Bator humidity is affected by ambient humidity.
Remember that while temps need to stay stable hourly,
humidity can vary over the incubation, why I watch the air cells.
Filling the reservoirs fully can help keep the humidity up longer.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I could not find any operating instructions for that incubator. Mine doesn't work that way. I think you are supposed to set the humidity you want and it automatically mists water in there to reach that level. Since it is a forced air humidity should be the same throughout.

You can try adjusting the setting up and see what happens. It's possible the sensor or something else isn't working right.

That incubator turns the eggs by having rollers on the bottom, many incubators do it that way. You can try setting a reservoir of water in there if the rollers don't cause a problem. I'd want something with a slick bottom to set the reservoir on. That might stabilize it.

I'd probably be getting frustrated with it since it appears to not be working correctly. Good luck!

 

[turkey girl 0964]

I could not find any operating instructions for that incubator. Mine doesn't work that way. I think you are supposed to set the humidity you want and it automatically mists water in there to reach that level. Since it is a forced air humidity should be the same throughout.

You can try adjusting the setting up and see what happens. It's possible the sensor or something else isn't working right.

That incubator turns the eggs by having rollers on the bottom, many incubators do it that way. You can try setting a reservoir of water in there if the rollers don't cause a problem. I'd want something with a slick bottom to set the reservoir on. That might stabilize it.

I'd probably be getting frustrated with it since it appears to not be working correctly. Good luck!

would a mason jar lid work as a little reservori?

 

[turkey girl 0964]

When I put the mason jar lid in in the incubator the humidity was 15% and now the humidity is a 45%+ is that ok? Or should I take the lid out?

 

[Ridgerunner]

See if it stabilizes, but sounds good to me.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

See if it stabilizes, but sounds good to me.

It has stabilized at 50%.