[TheCaptain]

There isn't a vent, I think.  We remove our chicks as soon as they look dry enough, which seems to keep the humidity down.  We took our last four out, still wet, and stuck them straight under the infra red lamp to dry out that way as, like your experience, they were sopping and it was really humid!  When did you get yours?  Like Dizzycow, we brought ours last April and it packed up when we got it out to start hatching again this year and it went belly-up.  As she says, faulty adaptor and the brinsea help desk are very helpful.

BTW, sounds like you got your humidity water levels right, don't listen to anyone else on here who hasn't got this incy WRT what humidity levels are needed.  We follow the instructions by the letter and have achieved 90% hatch rates this year (although the last three hatches have been 100%).
 

[OhLaLa]

Yes, always follow the instructions supplied with incubators.The manufacturers know best as they designed it.

I've never used that particular incubator but I'm afraid I don't like the sound of it. Faulty adaptors don't make it sound any better for me either.

Hope all is going well with the chicks Nickie.

 

[TheCaptain]

I've been really chuffed with it, we had some really ropey results with our first hatchings but that was more to do with buying eggs from Fleecebay!  Once we got eggs from our local breeder (Barry Dunning - lovely bloke, excellent poultry breeder!) we were away and have had 100% from his eggs.  We also had our own successful hatch with our own eggs, RIR x Favorelle and RIR x BPR - we're going to see how these grow and lay!!!

[OhLaLa]

Fleecebay!

Not heard that one. I will never call it anything else again!