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Are you using the built in meter on this incubator or have another thermometer? 99 to 101 will work.

Hey Stryker, what you using that little pan in? Is it big enough to keep your moisture where it needs to be?

Its not about the temp here----Opening it here---during hatch time causes it to loose moisture--quick, causing the eggs to fog inside and drown the chicks etc. I have Great Incubators----They just work the best with the best hatch % keeping them closed completely till after the hatch date...

Good Luck!! Some of you are so Lucky that you can take the eggs out the incubator during the hatch time, and handle, float, candle them, etc. If I did that here---where I live--- I would Loose most of them----shrink wrap, drown in the unhatched egg, etc, etc.

Hey Annie, Welcome. The GQ"F" is a nice incubator and needs to be used some---LOL. How Bad is your Addiction?? I think I might be Right there with you. In a few months I went from 30 some chickens, 1 styrofoam incubator to over 1200 chicks/chickens in 60+ chicken yards/pens, 5 cabinet...

99.5 is the ideal temp, but you are checking each level with the "same" thermometer so you can see if something needs to change. If all places read about the same----that's good. If after reading the different places and all read about the same but the temp is to high or to low-----then you will...

You use the same thermometer(not several)---place it----check it in a hour or so---move to another place for a hour or 2---read---then move again.

This is a cabinet----several racks of eggs---not like a Styrofoam.

100 is fine, better than 98.5.

She Loves messing with the chicks/chickens. Her Husband(step-father) of 35 years past and we set her a home up and moved her back to our home place/farm where I live as well as another of my 3 sister's.. When I was hatching all those chicks last year etc, she wanted so bad to help me but her...

Stryker, I quoted your post because 3 weeks ago I told you I had my worse hatch in 2 years...92%, but I did have several problems that might have affected that hatch-- 1. a lot of 10 to 14 day old eggs, 2. power went off for a few hours while I was gone---came on about the time I got...

It sound like from this comment you are opening the incubator during the hatch-----if so it might not effect your final hatch where you live, but if I opened during day 19,20,21 my hatch percentage goes WAAAAAAAAAAAY down, having all kinds of shrink wrapping, etc, etc. My Family knows---"You...

I see some here in my area selling some $10/$20 chicks----one is a friend and he told me he had rather sell them $10 chicks, than to sell 5 $2 chicks---less work he said. Last year I think he sold about $700 worth of them $10 chicks. I sold $1000's and $1000's and $1000's of them cheaper...

My Wife says----"That's your Hobby run it anyway you want and get as many chickens as you want". My wife rarely feeds them, rarely looks at them in the brooders and after the first few hatches she rarely peeks in the hatcher anymore. That's fine, with ,me---Its My hobby. But Keep in mind, I...

I have 19 heated brooders over 1/2 of them are thermostat controlled and others--just a hanging light in them and I have had chicks in all 19. Keep in mind I was hatching every week so only about 1/3(average) hatches per week. It did not bother me to have 1000 un-sold chicks----was a little...

Stryker, I have 3 cabinets that hold 288 eggs---well one of them will hold 336. I have another cabinet that will hold 164 then The hatcher will hold about 300 but I save it to hatch, then I have MANY Styrofoam incubators that will hold 41 to 48 in the turners----The most I have ever had...

Have you used more than one meter to check the humidity? If you have water in it and you are getting a 45% humidity and you add more water surface---not depth and it still reads 45% something is wrong with that meter. Every incubator I got I can range from what the humidity is without water to...

Good to know there is more of us. Almost 2 years ago I put a few eggs in my Styrofoam incubator, a few weeks later I built a cabinet that holds 288 eggs, then built a hatcher, then bought another couple cabinets, then I ended up hatching over 5600 chicks before I turned off my incubators, I took...

You might need to give a general area you live in---then maybe someone close can loan you one??? This Board goes all over the World------where you live??

Are you saying you moved some chicks to a hatcher and the only one that hatched is one you missed---still in the turner which is in the incubator??? Do you not have a brooder to put the chick in---to keep it warm---about 95 degree's right now??? The chick needs to stay around that temp for a...