Hi BYC friends! I just got involved on this website a week ago or so & am loving it!
I'm doing a project for my son's school, and need to get my eggs set today. I've been waiting for some eggs (from the mail) but after almost a week they haven't shown up so I think I need to go ahead with some other eggs I got on Monday.
I've had the incubator plugged in for several days trying to get conditions right.
I have the hova bator 1602N which we added a fan to. The GQF thermometer that comes with it shows 98 while an old mercury oral thermometer I put in there reads 100.6. I have them both lying on top of some golf balls to simulate eggs. Which one do I trust?
I'm also confused about humidity -- in the hatching instructions on this site I believe it says 60% initially but I read the article on dry incubation & am wondering if that's too high for starting out. Not too tempted to try dry incubation since our air is so dry here (So. Cal).
Thanks in advance for your expertise!
I'm doing a project for my son's school, and need to get my eggs set today. I've been waiting for some eggs (from the mail) but after almost a week they haven't shown up so I think I need to go ahead with some other eggs I got on Monday.
I've had the incubator plugged in for several days trying to get conditions right.
I have the hova bator 1602N which we added a fan to. The GQF thermometer that comes with it shows 98 while an old mercury oral thermometer I put in there reads 100.6. I have them both lying on top of some golf balls to simulate eggs. Which one do I trust?
I'm also confused about humidity -- in the hatching instructions on this site I believe it says 60% initially but I read the article on dry incubation & am wondering if that's too high for starting out. Not too tempted to try dry incubation since our air is so dry here (So. Cal).
Thanks in advance for your expertise!