humidity

This is my first ever batch that I’m incubating. I have 10 Rouhen duck eggs at day 26. I had 3 pip yesterday!! I am concerned about the humidity. I did not realize the importance of a hygrometer since I’m new at this, so I never bought one. I’ve been watching their air cell and adjusting...

so I put some button quail eggs in an incubator but the humidity won’t go any lower than 60-65%. I put a small dehumidifier in there which is keeping it low 60s. Is that too high or do I need to find something else to keep it lower?

I have a styrofoam Little Giant incubator. It has no water in it. It was washed out last week and sat in the sun to dry. It has been running for four days in the humidity will not go below 60. I have eggs waiting to get in there. How can I get the humidity down. I'm aiming for 30 to 35%. The...

Hello! I brought an egg in from my coop and put it in my Brinsea Mini Advanced because the mama hen stopped sitting on it. I have no idea exactly how old the chick in the egg is, however I know it’s nearing the end. My question is is it more dangerous to turn the humidity up and temperature down...

ive got about 17-25 eggs in my little giant still air incubator. 6 babies have hatched so far with a few others pip. However, since hatching the humidity levels have started to rise too high in the 70s-80s. I slightly set the lid off. I tried removing the wet rag that added humidity, then it...

Hello all, So I have eggs in an incubator in my classroom right now. I set 8 this past Wednesday and 5 more on Thursday (I know it's not ideal, but that's the situation). I should've counted the days more carefully and planned better because I just realized that day 18 is on a Sunday and what's...

today is the first day that I have put 28 eggs in the Brinsea maxi 2 incubator. Please check if the following values are correct?? 1- temp is set to 37.7 2- humidity is set to 45% 4- turning angle is 6 5- turning interval is 120 minutes. Are all the above values correct? Any changes ?

Hi! My 11-year-old daughter and I are new and posting together here as we try for the first time to hatch Rouen ducklings! We are using a Genesis Hova-Bator styrofoam incubator with a fan. We have spent hours over the past weeks reading in the learning center, printing articles, reading forums...

hey everyone, Today I bought some quail eggs to try and incubate them. Recently I bought a simple incubator from Amazon to try it out. This is the one: 32624801280.html So my dad and I decided to design a new egg holder to fit al 12 eggs with a 3D printer. Now I ran into a problem. I can not...

So I've been incubating 7 eggs for one week now. The incubator I'm using is really old and very, very manual. The temp on the incubator is ok until I leave. I go to school 7 hours a day and when I come home the incubator temp is wayyyy too high. My humidity has also been a big struggle. I...

I'm on the 6th day of incubation and my humidity has been around 45-55%, is this ok? Will they have problems when hatching? Also are there any tricks for candling brown australorp eggs? Thanks

howdy Guys, I’m hoping y’all can help me figure out my mystery. I have tried both wet and dry incubation in two different incubators and have had the same problem. During wet incubation, I kept the incubator, a forced air, at 40-50% humidity and 60-65% at hatch. In my dry inchbation run, my most...

I apologize if this is a bit long... I have been hatching eggs in incubators for 7 or 8 years, on and off. My first attempts were in a Styrofoam still air incubator, eggs hand turned. I had consistent 70% success rates with geese, ducks, and chickens. I graduated to a forced air Styrofoam...

I just discovered on day 13 that our humidity has been wrong for our incubating eggs. Please help!! I need to know what can be done to help our chicks grow healthy air sacks. Humidity was 75-90% for these two weeks. Now that it is empty of all water, humidity is down to 30% What can I do to...

Hello! We are on Day 13 of our first hatch, and we have 7 fertile (and very active) speckled Sussex in our incubator. Our incubator did not come with a humidity gauge, so until yesterday we were just guessing the amount of water to keep in the water dish. We bought a gauge! Now, I know the...

So today is day 22 of my chicks incubating I have candeled as they are late (I know I shouldn’t) but the air sacs look really small and I’m not sure if I have done something wrong or some just come late any idea?

In the article on incubation there is a huge range for humidity "for days 1-18 28-50./. humidity. " How can that be? Is that a missprint?

Ok, I’ve kept humidity between generally 35-50%, sometimes dipping to 25% the whole time. It’s day 17 and these air sacs look too small to me. This is my first hatch, so maybe I’m wrong but I’m worried about my peepers! If they are too small, what can I do to save them? Am I too late? Should I...

Hi there! Tomorrow is day 21! So excited. I live in an old farmhouse and run 2 woodstoves but with the current cold snap we’ve been running the kitchen wood stove as well. So dry air to say the least. House runs 14-18% humidity. I’ve kept the humidity up by putting water in the bottom well...

My incubator is a little giant with built in thermometer and setting as well as a hudmidity showing. It stays around 50% but I need to lower it to 30% and to keep it on 30%. Can anyone tell me any ways to do that?? I added a bowl of water to keep the egg from drying out so quickly. I even added...