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Emergency!
As I posted in my last thread, I had some quail eggs in the incubator with some duck eggs and chicken eggs. I added the quail eggs first, but they all died before hatching. I concluded the temp must be off, and I can't find an accurate thermometer for the life of me.
I candled the duck eggs just now, and at least one is still alive and moving. Now I'm desperately trying to save it.
I'm trying to figure out the temp inside the incubator and failing miserably. I have 8 different thermometers and now I have two incubators. I bought the new incubator when I realized the other one was not working. It's a little giant, and it's supposed to be preset to stay at 99.5. But I'm not sure it's right.
I can't calibrate any of the thermometers-two of them are paper, one of them is too big, some of them just have too small of print to be accurate, the others are built into the incubators.
I ordered this thermometer on eBay-do you think it's good?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Incubator-D...344?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4180b3a228
That's coming in a few days, but the question is what to do right now.
I'm trying to figure out the temp with two medical thermometers. I put two jars with water in the incubators and tested them with the medical thermometers. The medical thermometers agree with each other, which is good, but I'm not sure what to think about the jars. I have small tupperware containers in there too. When I measure the tubs they seem to be a few degrees less than the jars. The temp is different every time I take it-sometimes as low as 92, usually it hovers around 95, and only once did it say 99. At the moment, it's my only option. All the stores are sold out of thermometers.
Please help-I need a working method right now, I'm afraid my (possibly last) remaining duckling won't make it.
As I posted in my last thread, I had some quail eggs in the incubator with some duck eggs and chicken eggs. I added the quail eggs first, but they all died before hatching. I concluded the temp must be off, and I can't find an accurate thermometer for the life of me.
I candled the duck eggs just now, and at least one is still alive and moving. Now I'm desperately trying to save it.
I'm trying to figure out the temp inside the incubator and failing miserably. I have 8 different thermometers and now I have two incubators. I bought the new incubator when I realized the other one was not working. It's a little giant, and it's supposed to be preset to stay at 99.5. But I'm not sure it's right.
I can't calibrate any of the thermometers-two of them are paper, one of them is too big, some of them just have too small of print to be accurate, the others are built into the incubators.
I ordered this thermometer on eBay-do you think it's good?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Incubator-D...344?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4180b3a228
That's coming in a few days, but the question is what to do right now.
I'm trying to figure out the temp with two medical thermometers. I put two jars with water in the incubators and tested them with the medical thermometers. The medical thermometers agree with each other, which is good, but I'm not sure what to think about the jars. I have small tupperware containers in there too. When I measure the tubs they seem to be a few degrees less than the jars. The temp is different every time I take it-sometimes as low as 92, usually it hovers around 95, and only once did it say 99. At the moment, it's my only option. All the stores are sold out of thermometers.
Please help-I need a working method right now, I'm afraid my (possibly last) remaining duckling won't make it.