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Controlling Your Incubator's Humidity by Monitoring Egg Weight Loss PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 05 May 2008

 by Linda Harrison

Depending on the humidity levels in the incubator and around the eggs, more or less moisture is lost through the shells by evaporation during the 21 days of incubation and hatching.  The suggested humidity range of 40% - 50% takes into fact many variables in the incubator as well as the individual differences in shell porosity between one egg and another laid by the same or different chickens. All eggshells are not equal.

Taking all of the possible mechanical and biological variables into account, it becomes a guessing game at best, and sometimes wrong guesses are made and eggs fail to hatch under the exact conditions that worked last time.

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