[Thingy]

I have just started breeding my silkie chickens this year so I got myself an incubator and my eggs are doing very well and the first batch will be hatching around Monday.

However, I have been putting them in in batches as I only have 3 silkie hens. I put in a batch a week. When I raise the humidity levels for the first batch of eggs to hatch, will it adversely affect the other, not quite so ready to hatch, eggs.

Thank you for your time.

Thingy xx

[Nails]

Thingy is your inncy a manual turn? If not how are you going to deal with stopping the turning process on day 18?
if you have 3 hens why do you not just save a weeks worth of eggs that would give you 21 eggs to place in the inncy then humidity would not be a problem.
As far as the humidity is concerned, i have had real trouble with it this year, and i am sure someone with more experience will come along and correct me if i am wrong, but if it is to high when the last lot of eggs go in it could affect them, same as if temp is to high.
i must admit i have 3 inncys and use one as a hatcher i know not everyone has that luxury, and its not alway possible to do that, but at least if they are going in the inncy in batches you just move the ones out at 18 days and up the humidity that way.
Hope that helps a little

[Thingy]

Yea, its manual. I prefer manual to be honest, more work but you can keep an eye on things. Trouble is, high humidity drops suddenly when you open the incubator so I will have to turn them really quickly.

:/ I am a student so I cannot afford a seperate hatcher. I would love one though.

I am carefully planning when I put my batches in around planned humidity rises, I am thinking giving them time to settle before raising the humidity. I collect 14 a week so I put them in once a week...usually on a monday. After hatching I would put the humidity back down to 45%

I do not want to lose much of the first batch though, they are the most special as they are the offspring of my poor Harry (Rest his soul)

Yes it did help a little bit....any advice you can give is great. Even though I am trained in Animal Management, I admit I used to be phobic of chickens and ergo, never went to the lectures that involved them. ....I regret that now...