Incubator temperature and humidity? ? ?

bunyanuternie · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:31 pm **Posts:** 2903

even if you try putting a piece of cardboard on top of the eggs then putting the Thermometer on this .

it's funny you say an eggcarton . I always run my bators for a day or two before putting any eggs in , and always sit the thermos on eggcartons when I do this .

broodybantam · **Joined:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:52 am **Posts:** 2

I have always had trouble with trying to get the right combination seems almost impossible. I see to get the temperature right but not the humidity it seems to be one of the other

Raf · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:55 pm

You can buy dual gauges to read both check out bellsouth.com

Raf

Ann@Nanango · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:12 am

Hi everybody.

Well, I checked the level of the thermometer and it's about 2/3 the way up the height of the eggs.

We did have three little babies hatch (started on Friday 12 June and I think the last one hatched on Sunday morning). Unfortunately the person who owns the incubator threw all the eggs out which didn't hatch - it was a week later, so I'm assuming they would not have hatched at that late stage. I did have a peg ready to put on my nose to do a few egg post mortem's, but oh well never mind. I'm pretty sure one or two were pipping when I got the three out. We were in the middle of moving house, so it was quite frantic - finding a box (not that it was hard), but finding a place to put the box was the hard part, so my three babies sat between and on top of boxes for the first few days.

The last one to hatch had goop hanging off it's bottom. Underdeveloped maybe? Anyway, it dried up and we cut it off. He's severely stunted (at least half the size of the others now), but has started to eat and show a bit more interest in life during the last couple of days.

One of the chicks looks more like a Golden Campine than his dad.

Will keep you posted on their progress. We're still sorting out phones/internet, so may not be for a while. (I've connected myself using wireless to the landlords 'puty).

I love my new house, I can see the chicken coops from the kitchen window over the sink, and I can see my roosters are doing their thing - Light Sussex will be in the incubator soon.

Cheers for now.

Ann

bunyanuternie · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:31 pm **Posts:** 2903

Well done anne . Three's better than none , and You'll just get better each time

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