![]() ![]() Personally, I've had best hatches with a "dry incubation", where humidity averages around 30% during the pre-lockdown part of incubation. Humidity is average, it's fine for it to fluctate a bit. It really is amazing how fast they grow in a few weeks time. If you haven’t already, build your enclosure now. Once in lock down you get to sit on your hands and wait. Every reference I read agreed humidity was important then. Personally I wouldn’t stress that point as long they are all still getting turned regularly.Įxtra thoughts: candle all your eggs prior to tossing any out, you want to have a reference for what you’re looking for. ![]() If you feel the need to space them out a bit you can. That’s when you want to toss out your duds. Your also suppose to take them out to candle them, most people recommend day 10. I’ve read some people will lay wet sponges inside to elevate / stabilize humidity.ģ) it’s ok to briefly open things up during the first couple weeks. More sections you fill gives more humidity. I have a different incubator which has a sectioned off water tray at the bottom. You can google dry incubation to see where people intentionally keep their humidity very very low during the first couple weeks.Ģ) humidity in my incubator seemed to directly correlate to water surface area. I’ve only hatched one set myself, I’m certainly no expert.ġ) humidity during incubation has a lot of different opinions. Is it ok to open the incubator to scoot the eggs back up the rollers to unbunch them every 6 hours or so? The room temp here ranges from 70 - 81 F What can I do to help make the humidity more stable? I am trying those humidor packs, but it seems to have little to no effect. Is the momentary humidity overall very important or are we more concerned about the running avg over time? The second thing I have noticed is that the eggs are turning but seem to have bunched up or possibly started rubbing against each other. The relative humidity of my house is and somewhat high at about 46% avg. I have noticed I am having difficulty keeping the humidity at a constant number, opening the little vent in the top and adding even the most minute amount of warm water can make it swing from one extreme to the other. Humidity swings from 21% to 55%, but averaging around 47%. Is of writing this I have had 18 coturnix quail eggs of assorted size and color in the incubator for 19 hours, at 99.8 F on average. I have noticed a few things and I have questions that have come up during my observation. I purchased a 16 Egg Incubator from Amazon called the Kktect or otherwise known as "Safego Egg Incubator for Hatching Eggs, Digital Mini Incubator with Automatic Turner and Egg Candler Tester for Hatching Chicken Duck Quail Bird Eggs (16 Eggs)" ![]()
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