humidity

  1. quail power

    California Valley Quail - Humidity, feed & enclosure to hatch & raise

    We would like to learn about incubating & raising quail. My 9 year old daughter is currently incubating 9 eggs from wild California (Valley) Quail from our backyard. The momma quail was killed by a roaming cat. So we are scrambling to learn how to hatch & care for them until they are old...
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  2. A

    Terrible hatch rate 2/12 eggs, is it time to intervene?

    Hey guys, this is my first hatch. I have a fan forced incubator with a temp. gauge and no humidity gauge that i borrowed from my boss. He claims he has always had great success with it, but then told me about how he had to help chicks hatch, so I now suspect that is not so true. It has two...
  3. Vivid Hatchery

    Horrible hatch rate, deaths throughout the stages. Please help diagnose.

    Okay, so I am having a terrible time hatching chicks. I know that most of us here keep our chicks backyard or on a small farm, and I am no different. I provide a balanced layer feed ration. Most of my flocks are around 1:5 gender ratio. My birds have a lot of places they can run and escape...
  4. Mixed flock enthusiast

    Duck hatching help

    Hi All, I’ve been lurking on BYC for months but this is my first post. We have 10 Welsh Harlequin and 5 domestic mallard eggs that were set in a still air incubator together 27 days ago. Tonight will start day 28. We’ve been weighing the eggs and targeting 14% weight loss, which has proved tough...
  5. brshilling

    Eggs progressing normally at lockdown then not hatching

    I'm on my 5th hatch. I have digital incubator with a fan. Most of my hatches have had approx 30 eggs put in initially. I lose about 5 to infertility or a blood ring around day 10 and then the others have grown steadily to day 18 and reached the lockdown phase. Then when the babies start coming...
  6. Cierabug

    Humidity too high ??

    This is my first time incubating chicks and I'm using a friend's incubator which had problems with humidity control before. Will the chicks be fine with the humidity at 59% for the whole incubation. It's day 2 so far.
  7. Cierabug

    Humidity too high ??

    This is my first time incubating chicks and I'm using a friend's incubator which he had problems with humidity control before. Will the chicks be fine with the humidity at 59% for the whole incubation. It's day 2 so far.
  8. Poulterrific

    Brinsea Mini II Ex, an important tip on humidity

    I am on day 19.5 of my first attempt as using this incubator, and second attempt at incubating eggs overall. My wife and I candled the eggs and put them in lockdown yesterday on day 18. This incubator uses a peristaltic pump to draw water from a bottle into a reservoir inside of the incubator...
  9. B

    Staggered hatching - in dry Southwest environment - Help Please

    Hello all and thank you for this community! I'm new to chicken incubating and my first group is now on day 22. The first chick pipped late on day 20 so now has been in the bator close to 48 hours. There are 3 more hatched and dry. I can see several more of the 28 eggs that have pipped. The...
  10. M

    Incubator humidity and size

    I've got a question. Does only partly filling an incubator compromise it's ability to hold humidity? I've got a 56 egg HHD and we only got two chicks out of 12. It was impossible to raise humidity above 30% the whole time. I don't want to hatch 56 eggs, we have limited space. Is there something...
  11. BabySweetsTurkeys

    Humidity help, emergency!

    I have 2 Hydrometers in my incubator, a magicfly one and a repltile tank one, and both read 70% at day 10. I then checked my incubator and there is literally only about 1/4 teaspoon of water in the bottom. How is it reading that high when so little water is in it? Or is 1/4 teaspoon to much? Is...
  12. BabySweetsTurkeys

    Humidity help

    My humidity was at a steady 55%, but my cat bumped my arm when I was adding more water, caused me to add more water than needed and now it’s at 67%. I’m on day 7, will this hurt the chicks? What should I do? All help is appreciated!
  13. H

    New and Nervous!! HELP please

    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...
  14. J

    Incubating button quail humidity?

    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?
  15. kempkalm

    Nothing I do gets the humidity down

    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...
  16. MiBirds

    Humidity in Incubator?

    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...
  17. M

    Unstable incubation humidity on hatch day?

    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...
  18. S

    Day 18 questions

    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...
  19. orangesplash

    First timer with Pheasant eggs incubation

    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 ?
  20. DuckityLove77

    New to Ducks – Day 24 Help with Decision about Humidity in Lockdown

    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...
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