Incubation humidity

[nuthatched]

I’ll order it right now it might come in a few days. There’s still water in the incubator and my dad is saying we can try this dry hatching but keep a little water in at a time just to be safe. (He’s a first time hatcher as well). Do I put it INSIDE the incubator when it comes in?

Calibrate it with salt and put whatever part of it that's a sensor in

 

[thistlewick]

I couldn't keep my incubator steady much at all for this very first hatch I just did - put 5 eggs in and 2 werent even viable - of the 3 that were, only 1 was a late stage quitter (about day 14) and the 2 that made it to lockdown both hatched.

My humidity swung from 22 to 56 throughout the incubation period, I was checking sometimes every hour, sometimes every 3-4 hours. Sometimes I'd sleep through the night and not check it and wake up to anywhere from 22 to 35...

I know it needs to be dry enough so the air sac gets big enough - that's super important, you don't want it too high.

I asked a bunch of questions about it and was told that everything will probably be okay and it ended up that it was!!

I think it's the *average* humidity that is important and prob around 40 is the sweet spot, just like for us humans (that is where we feel the most comfortable)

 

[Yardmom]

When lowering humidity you need to decrease the surface area of the water. Whether your water is deep or shallow will not affect the humidity. I'm not sure what the design of your incubator is, but in some that means using fewer or smaller channels.

Personally I don't add water until lockdown. My relative humidity runs around 80%.

 

[Reke]

When I take away some of the water it goes very low, when I put a little more it goes very high. How many of ur eggs hatch when u do the dry hatching?

 

[casportpony]

What incubator do you have?

 

[Reke]

What incubator do you have?

36 egg chicken incubator

https://www.amazon.ca/Incubator-Aut...hvtargid=pla-2313640784292&psc=1&gad_source=1

 

[casportpony]

36 egg chicken incubator

https://www.amazon.ca/Incubator-Aut...hvtargid=pla-2313640784292&psc=1&gad_source=1

Can you put water in just one of the channels? Or are they all connected?

 

[Reke]

Can you put water in just one of the channels? Or are they all connected?
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I have it in the central channel like the instructions say for the first 7 days but the humidity is still very high even when it’s half full

 

[Rose Quartz]

Yeah the hygrometers go inside the incubator. I dont bother doing the salt calibrating the ones ive boight have always been good at tracking humidity.

I run my incu at about 30% which is as low as the hygrometer will read. I have run it lower but the hygrometer displays LL.

Humidity can vary what's important is the aircell size.

 

[Reke]

Yeah the hygrometers go inside the incubator. I dont bother doing the salt calibrating the ones ive boight have always been good at tracking humidity.

I run my incu at about 30% which is as low as the hygrometer will read. I have run it lower but the hygrometer displays LL.

Humidity can vary what's important is the aircell size.

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I’m getting the hygrometer today in the mail, I’ll put it inside the incubator and see what it’s looking like. My incubator starts beeping very loudly if the humidity is under 40% and won’t stop till it’s above. Also today would be day 3 so it’s too early to see the air cells