Incubation | Digital Hygrometer | Hygrometer & Thermometer

Digital Hygrometer for incubators.

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Hygrometers are very important in incubation and incubators as humidity is very important to allow moisture loss from hatching eggs as the developing chicks must lose the correct percentage of moisture to allow them enough space inside the shell to turn and hatch at the right time.

More problems in incubation are caused by too much humidity that too little. I always advise caution when measuring humidity in incubators.

Although this is a hygrometer and thermometer, in your incubator supplies we only recommend using it for humidity readings and a bulb thermometer for temperature.

I have seen many books giving exact percentahges of humidity for each species but they really seem to fail to see the difference incubators have on these measures, for example I find for hen eggs, in still air incubators such as the 16 Egg Incubator I suggest a 40% humidity for 19 days and 60% for the last 2 days. Now in a moving air / forced air incubator like our EGG Incubator the air movement has an effect on the reading of the hygrometer and I advise a 10% reduction in humidity readings. So it will read 30% humidity for 19 days and then 50%-55% for the last two. No I do not believe humidity is less by 10% it is just the air movement gives an average 10% less reading although you will find results to be just right.

If you really find reading hygrometers such as this one and the standard hygrometer that stay inside the incubator then you could go for our External Hygrometer as you can keep the unit outside your incubators and just leave the probe inside the incubator.