Hello from Florida

honeybunny80

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Oct 3, 2016
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So, I'm a suburban girl born and raised but my son asked to do a science project on the benefits of raising chickens un suburban neighborhoods. Their Dad and I thought about it and decided this may do far more than even he predicted. So, I've been lurking on this site for about two weeks, filled up my kindle with books, bought the dummies books and borrowed two incubators to use. W placed the eggs on 10/13 and I snuck in to candle a few tonight and only a few mshow signs of veins and the shells are all speckled. We have had trouble with the bator we chose maintaining a temp over 99 degrees. I have plugged in the 2nd bator just now to see if we can regulate that again. We/i chose to use the dry method because of the humidity in our atmosphere but i am super worried that the lower temp has hurt my eggs. Please help. If we can raise the twmp in the bator to between 100 and 102 starting tomorrow do you tjink they still have a chance?
 
Hi :welcome

Glad you could join us here! You don't say if your incubator has a fan or not? For a fan incubator the temp should ideally be 99.5F so you are not too far off. But if it does not have a fan you do need to be shooting for 101-102F measured at the top of the eggs. Did you double check your thermometer is giving you a correct reading?

Good luck with your eggs :fl
 
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Hi and welcome to BYC - you have some great advice from Y/Coop already so I'll just say hello!

All the best
CT
 
Thank you all for the welcome. We are using a still air...no fan but it's for reptiles so its a little deeper than the little giant, which I see is part of the problem. I was also measuring the temp at the base of the eggs and not the top. I think I may be better off than I thought. Thank so much for the info
 

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