Incuview Incubator

[Molpet]

I've had mine about a year. Got it as a gift. Just ordered eggs from Meyer hatchery. Question: My incutherm reads about 1.5 degrees warmer than the incuview thermometer. Should I calibrate the incubator to the incutherm?

are the sensors next to each other? can you calibrate one of them or used a calibrated thermometer ? ( reads 32 in ice water

 

[junebuggena]

I've had mine about a year. Got it as a gift. Just ordered eggs from Meyer hatchery. Question: My incutherm reads about 1.5 degrees warmer than the incuview thermometer. Should I calibrate the incubator to the incutherm?

Calibrate the incutherm to ensure that it is reading accurately. Then adjust the incuview controls.

 

[aart]

Quote: @junebuggena Can you actually adjust either/both of these units?
What do you suggest as a standard to adjust/calibrate against?

 

[PD-Riverman]

I've had mine about a year. Got it as a gift. Just ordered eggs from Meyer hatchery. Question: My incutherm reads about 1.5 degrees warmer than the incuview thermometer. Should I calibrate the incubator to the incutherm?

Have you been hatching in it? Let your hatch tell you which is off or right?

 

[katefollot]

Is the power supply issue fixed? This would be my first hatch so I would rather wait to order if this isn't a completely resolved problem.

 

[grimes1213]

Hi everyone! This is my first time incubating eggs (except for maybe once in middle school lol) AND first time using an incuview incubator.. so far I have been pretty happy with the results.. set 24, after candling ended up with 15 who all seem to be doing very well as far as I can tell (the others apparently weren't fertilized as I cracked them open to check.. my rooster must not like those particular hens lol).

I have double checked the incubators thermometer with my husbands very expensive smoker thermometer and they are within a 1/2 to 1 degree of each other, which I feel is pretty darn accurate and we will probably never get anything to be 100% exact. But I do not have a second hygrometer to check the humidity, and am solely relying on the incubators gauge. I have entered the "lockdown" and am having trouble getting the humidity up to where it should be on the gauge.. I've filled all 3 reservoirs and added sponges on both sides.. I feel like that should be MORE than enough, but it's still not humid enough according to the gauge. I don't want to drown my chicks because of an inaccurate gauge, should I go with my gut and take some sponges out? Or leave them in? (I do live in a very dry log home and we use pellet stoves for heat which are a dry heat as well..)

Any thoughts? TIA!



reading from my husband's smoker thermometer, just for fun to double check temp ^



temp and humidity reading on the incubator ^ humidity reading is not even touching the "hatching humidity" recommendation




^ TWO rows of small 2" wide x 3-4" long sponges, saturated.. plus all 3 chambers filled below

 

[junebuggena]

Hi everyone! This is my first time incubating eggs (except for maybe once in middle school lol) AND first time using an incuview incubator.. so far I have been pretty happy with the results.. set 24, after candling ended up with 15 who all seem to be doing very well as far as I can tell (the others apparently weren't fertilized as I cracked them open to check.. my rooster must not like those particular hens lol).

I have double checked the incubators thermometer with my husbands very expensive smoker thermometer and they are within a 1/2 to 1 degree of each other, which I feel is pretty darn accurate and we will probably never get anything to be 100% exact. But I do not have a second hygrometer to check the humidity, and am solely relying on the incubators gauge. I have entered the "lockdown" and am having trouble getting the humidity up to where it should be on the gauge.. I've filled all 3 reservoirs and added sponges on both sides.. I feel like that should be MORE than enough, but it's still not humid enough according to the gauge. I don't want to drown my chicks because of an inaccurate gauge, should I go with my gut and take some sponges out? Or leave them in? (I do live in a very dry log home and we use pellet stoves for heat which are a dry heat as well..)

Any thoughts? TIA!



reading from my husband's smoker thermometer, just for fun to double check temp ^



temp and humidity reading on the incubator ^ humidity reading is not even touching the "hatching humidity" recommendation




^ TWO rows of small 2" wide x 3-4" long sponges, saturated.. plus all 3 chambers filled below

Take the turning tray out completely. Chicks can get toes, legs, or even heads stuck in it. And don't trust the built in humidity gauge.

 

[grimes1213]

I had taken the tray out, but the directions said to leave it in...

 

[grimes1213]

And I have no choice but to trust it now at this point, I don't have an external one to double check it..

 

[junebuggena]

I had taken the tray out, but the directions said to leave it in...

Take it out. Bad things have happened on occasion when it's left in.