I have a lab grade incubator that was gifted to me. I tried to hatch 80 + eggs in it a month ago and only had four hatch. One died and I had to cull another one. So, needless to say it went very, very poorly. Well we added a tanning bed cooling fan and are going to try again. There are also two LG auto egg turners. It has been running steady for three days before we set the eggs. It has had minor fluctuations so far but has remained in range. This morning at !:30am I put in. Two dozen mixed eggs from a friend, 32 cuckoo maran eggs, 3 welsummer mix eggs, one FCBM, and 2 1/2 dozen mixed eggs and b/b orp eggs from my flock.
Day one 9:00am
Internal thermometers (water wiggler and egg therm purchased from e-bay): Top is 100.0 , Bottom is 99.5
External therm all read 100
Humidity (I have three) 46%, 44%, and 42%.
Here is a couple pics of the setup.
I attached a register air deflector to the top of the cooling fan to keep it from blowing directly on the eggs. I shortened it with a roto-zip and gorilla taped it to the fan.
There are five holes under the bottom plate, one large on in the top, and air vents in the front to allow for good air circulation. I have an 8x8 baking pan and bread pan with sponges in the bottom to maintain humidity. Also coming thru the top is a length of tubing attached to a funnel so I can add water without having to open the door. This incubator has two doors. A large metal one and a plexi-glass one on the inside so I can observe without releasing heat and humidity.
Here is a not very good picture of the cooling fan set up.
Day one
11:00 pm
Temps 101.3 & 100.8
Humidity 41%
added one cup of H2O
half an hour later
temps 99.7 & 99.5
humidity 55%
Day one 9:00am
Internal thermometers (water wiggler and egg therm purchased from e-bay): Top is 100.0 , Bottom is 99.5
External therm all read 100
Humidity (I have three) 46%, 44%, and 42%.
Here is a couple pics of the setup.
I attached a register air deflector to the top of the cooling fan to keep it from blowing directly on the eggs. I shortened it with a roto-zip and gorilla taped it to the fan.
There are five holes under the bottom plate, one large on in the top, and air vents in the front to allow for good air circulation. I have an 8x8 baking pan and bread pan with sponges in the bottom to maintain humidity. Also coming thru the top is a length of tubing attached to a funnel so I can add water without having to open the door. This incubator has two doors. A large metal one and a plexi-glass one on the inside so I can observe without releasing heat and humidity.
Here is a not very good picture of the cooling fan set up.
Day one
11:00 pm
Temps 101.3 & 100.8
Humidity 41%
added one cup of H2O
half an hour later
temps 99.7 & 99.5
humidity 55%
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