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The pickle jar was just so I didn't have to refill the water bottle or canning jar every few days.

Today I am starting the shoestring method with Celadon Coturnix Quail eggs. I have 10 eggs in the incubator so we will see how it goes. I am once again using the polyester shoestring in this test. The last time I used a cotton shoes string several of my chicks developed crossbeak. While when I...

I really like the big 5lb pickle jars. The 1/2 gallon canning jars just don't regulate the humidity enough. The 1/2 gallon jars work great for port B after lockdown.

This is my 2nd or 3rd try doing this with the last hatch.

Here they are in the brooder. 16 healthy chicks. 4 eggs are still in the incubator.

First 6/20 chicks have hatched. 1 more is currently hatching as I type.

When I get home from work. I know chicks will be hatched/hatching. I am so excited.

Update: Day 20 I have 4 to 5 external pips. At 68.3% humidity on the Grovee and 64% on the NR 360.

I will wait and see if the humidity drops naturally through the night otherwise I will fix it in the morning.

Day 19 update: I took the turner out yesterday. 20/21 eggs made it to lockdown. Right now the humidity is at 66%. Is that too high? I pulled out both shoe strings. To try to lower humidity. There are no pips yet so we will see. Normally without the shoestring method I have chicks hatch on day 18...

On another note: I have not had to refill incubator #1 water jar since the beginning. It is now day 15 out of 21. The olive jar says it holds 5lbs of olives. It doesn't give the fluid ounces though.

I am aimer for a 45% to 55% humidity on the first stage of incubation. Then after lockdown I plan to raise it to 65%. When chicks begin to hatch the humidity naturally goes up to 75% to 80%. I have 6 days left on the hatch with the cotton shoe string. I have 20 days left on the polyester shoe...

I got them from someone on Facebook.

Now I have both of my incubators up and running. On 7 days left on my first incubator I woke up this morning and had to add water even though I had the shoe string attached. The water level was a little lower than half so I guess it isn't wicking well with the cotton string. Notice photo#2 on...

The goove tracks the humidity and I will keep a closer look at it. During storm and such. Thank you for the insight.

The shoestring is in the channel. Originally it was all of the way in the channel. But now I have it only partially in. I add more water when the humidity gets to 30% and it wicks the rest.

Update: 7 days into the incubation period. I have had to take the cotton shoestring out 2x. Each time I took it out I had to add more water the next morning. As the humidity would go from 56% to 58% all the way down to ~30%.

I will. Thank you. :)

I live in Oregon. So it rains a lot here. Last time I hatched I don't think it was this cold and rainy. I need to take more photos of the humidity on the incubator that will help for next time.

I had to pull the shoestring out again tonight as the humidity got to 56%.