Yes I had it running for 3 days before and tested it. Without water it only read 23% humidity. My only question is, why does the humidity in the house matte If the incubator reads a certain percent? I don’t know how to word what I’m saying lol. I have it down to 45% humidity now just Incase. I know lower humidity is better than high. Just for added info, I am using the nurture right 360 incubator. Thank you!
It all depends on the heating that you are using in your house as well, I know up there that a lot of you have wood stoves and pellet stoves and such. Those types of heating dry out everything.
I don’t have a woodstove although I wish I did. I just have a regular furnace. Now I’m worried I have it too high. I know it’s trial and error. So far, there’s no condensation anywhere. I know if there was, I have it way too high. I’ll drop it a little more just Incase. Thank you for the info. I’ll definitely add to that forum
The humidity in your house matters because The humidity and the incubator will get no higher than that unless you add water.
it left with nothing and couldn't get out of the fencing.
Ohhhh ok. Gotcha. I have to add water bc it was too low without it. My incubator has adjustments. I have reservoir A for days 1-18 and then fill A and B from 18-hatch day. It has an adjustment on the top to to find tune it. Glad to hear the hawk didn’t get one of your chickens. We’ve had a few hawks that watch my flock. I have an owl decoy but that only works so much. Thanks for the help and good luck with that hawk!!The humidity in your house matters because The humidity and the incubator will get no higher than that unless you add water.
If my house is at 60% humidity, that means that I would not add any water because if I did the humidity in the incubator will get crazy high.
If the humidity in your house is 20ish%, it's okay to add some water. My house was 30% when I did my last hatch so I added no water and the incubator stayed at 30 ish %
Sorry just had a hawk in my chicken run
I think it was actually a falcon...
for a high hatch rate
i did my first hatching of shipped eggs, i now have 9 out of 10, 5 week old, health happy chicks running around.
I could not see much with the aircell when i received them also. i let them sit for 24 hours before i put them in the incubator. They say the fresher the egg, the smaller the aircell.
My incubator also has them on their sides and it wasn't untill day 7 when i candled that i seen all 10 with saddle/detached aircells. They spent 7 days rolling around on their side.
I read on here about setting them upright, so i cut out egg cartons for each egg to sit upright. Pic below of my set up...
I continued on but was only tilting them twice a day because it looked like all 10 aircell where detached and i thought by only tilting them slightly (slight lean to the inside, then slight lean to the outside of my round incubator) to try and get the aircells to settle. I actually ended up leaving them upright to hatch, i did end up turning 1 on its side and it had a hard time hatching and died 12 hours after it finally hatched.
I would also suggest to put a tick on the side of the egg at day 7 candling to mark the eye and do the usually makes of the aircell, although i didn't do anymore markings of the aircells after day 7 due to detached aircells but did more regular candling to watch aircell development, mainly because i had to turn off the egg turned and do manual tilting.
good luck with your hatching,
Keep us posted with you progress and cant wait to see your little chickies
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This is pretty much the same as i did mine in May.
Considering i only slightly tilted them twice a day till day 18 the embreyos developed fine, which begs the question, if they can develop ok with so little movemewnt then why is it recommended that they are fully turned three times a day
Ok, I ve been reading because I want to hatch eggs. I was hoping to hatch some of our own. Until this post, I didn’t want to ask, but is that possible to put my chickens eggs in an incubator? And, I’m guessing that as with any item, you get what you pay for...is there a mid-priced incubator..maybe $75 that is good enough? Ok, sorry to but in on such an awesome thread!
