![]() Try to get your humidity as close as you can, and you’ll be fine. It is almost completely impossible with a small incubator. Getting your humidity to become as accurate as your temperature is nearly impossible. When you read the temperature on the thermometer and hygrometer, you must then compare the readings to a chart to translate from wet-bulb/dry-bulb reading to “percentage humidity”.įrom the relative humidity table, you can see….Ħ0% humidity reads about 87 degrees on a wet-bulb at 99.5 degrees.Ħ0% humidity reads about 89 degrees on a wet-bulb at 101.5 degrees.Ĩ0% humidity reads about 93 degrees on a wet-bulb at 99.5 degrees.Ĩ0% humidity reads about 95 degrees on a wet-bulb at 101.5 degrees. The wick hangs in water to keep the bulb wet (hence the name “wet-bulb thermometer”). A hygrometer is simply a thermometer with a piece of wick attached to the bulb. Humidity is checked by way of a hygrometer (wet-bulb thermometer, or electronic handheld unit) used in conjunction with a regular “dry-bulb” thermometer. Soon you will be able to make adjustments by knowing what to do, instead of guessing!!! How do I check Humidity? It won’t be long until you can say, “I know what happened, all I need to do is change this one little thing”. They will be the most valuable tools that you can have. As you learn you’ll have these notes to look back on. Keep notes on everything you do during the incubation period. If they hatch late the temperature needs to be raised. If they hatched early the temperature needs to be lowered. After the first hatch, you can raise or lower the temperature by what the hatch tells you. A nice part about running a modern electronic incubator is that you get a very accurate temperature control often with digital displays. I’ve thrown away many thermometers in past years that I had considered reliable. ![]() Keeping the temperature accurate can be a struggle, even with very good thermometers. The bigger the deviation from the proper temperature, the bigger your problems will be! Is your Thermometer accurate? If your temperature is not accurate you will DEFINITELY have problems at hatch time. You can sneak by with humidity numbers that aren’t very accurate, but the combination of poor humidity and temperature will definitely cause problems at hatch time. Humidity: 40-50% during incubation, 50-65% for the last 3 days. Fan Forced incubator: 37.5 degrees measured anywhere in the incubator. Still-air incubator (no fan): 38.5 degrees measured at the TOP of the eggs. This is plain and simple, yet the MOST important part of hatching. Incubate the eggs either on their end (small end down) or on their sides. The key part about turning is for it to be at least twice a day but ideally a lot more and to be consistent. The fully automatic system uses a drive system to turn the eggs on a time-based system. With the semi-automatic turning, you can turn all of your eggs at once often by a lever outside the incubator. With the manual method you will simply turn the eggs by hand through 180 degrees at least twice a day. There are three main ways this is done, manually, semi-automatic, or fully automatic. Turningĭuring the period of incubation your eggs will need to be turned. The temperature inside the egg will be an average of this temperature swing in your incubator. The temperature in an incubator changes constantly, rising and lowering. ![]() Don’t confuse internal egg temperature with internal incubator temperature. Take note that I said “internal” temperature. If the eggs reach an internal temperature of 105 degrees you can kiss them good-bye. This gives you time to learn what’s going to happen in your incubator and allows you to make any necessary adjustments before setting your eggs.Ī definite way to ruin hatching eggs is to put them in the incubator without having it properly adjusted. It’s a good practice to follow and it will help your hatch!!! Incubator ready?īy the time you have got your eggs ready for setting your incubator should have been running at least 24 hours. Eggs should always be stored with the pointy end down prior to incubation. This allows the egg to reach ambient temperature. Your eggs need to settle for at least 24 hours before setting, ideally next to your incubator. ![]()
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