Humidity Help Please

[Marigold]

Are you sure he said 60%? This seems very high for the early days.
Did yuo get it running properly before you added the eggs? It's best to get all the kinks sorted out before you try incubating anything. Have you found a place for it where it will have minimum heat fluctuation - not near a draughty door or window and not anywhere where sun can touch it at any time of day. Dark is good, cool is fine so long as it stays more or less the same all the time.

 

[karminski]

well i did have it running for 48 hrs first not bad setting it up considering i have no one close by to help and although i was watching the video from pandt poultry i missed some of it as the dogs would not shut up very annoying that so i think so far i have done pretty good , its now in the darker side of the kitchen on the worktop next to the fridge but the temp has stayed the same an the humditiy is roughly 20% now must admit i thought that was high as well but us beginners have got to start somewhere 05 personnaly i prefer the broody bird :lol:

 

[karminski]

my friend came over and did something now the humidtiy is almost 60% but going up and down although the temp is the same and he got the water working and it was dripping of the sponge and on to the tray when he left ?? was that meant to happen ,thing is it doesnt help that we have the heating on not that its close to the rads my dad is quite ill and feels the slightest bit of cold so heating can be on a lot

 

[smudger28]

16/20 is not bad smudger !

Hi Chuck, very pleased with that considering 13 eggs came from ebay.....

I'll candle them again this Sunday!

 

[smudger28]

I candled them again this Sunday (day 14) and removed 4 eggs which have died. So I have 12 now out of 20 which isn't too bad. Fingers crossed now for a good hatch rate!