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Works great on mine. You may not be dosing properly.

Ahhh! Scaley legs/feet/beak are all caused by a mite. It burrows into the karatin (scales on legs, beak, nails, and sometimes even flesh) and lives/lays eggs there. While oils will slow it down and make the bird more comfortable, they do not get all the mites or the eggs so it comes back. Treat...

HA HA HA!! Money?? MONEY?? Are you kidding? I have around $50-60 in my controls. That's it! The biggest thing is the time it takes to build the cabinet. And then, adding egg turners. They aren't cheap. But, you can start with just one and add more as you need too, so it's scalable if...

First of all, heat rises, so you probably don't need to blow the air up off the bulbs, but that's up to you and your design. I typically take the heat and force it down toward the bottom of the bator and then let it rise on the opposite side of the bator. I shield the heatsource from the eggs...

I apologize, apparently that model is great on out of the box accuracy. Not all of them are. Most of the ones I have seen were off by a bit. I haven't used that model. My point is that we should not buy a device such as this off the shelf and assume it's accurate, cause it can be off by up...

You can buy a 100 thermometers and get different results from all of them. YOu need to focus on a calibrated thermometer. A digitial pharmacy thermometer is calibrated. If placed in the proper place away from the heating elements in a forced draft incubator, you will be able to accuratly...

Exactly, weight loss is key. Just as or more important than humidity is the temperature. Digital pharmacy thermometer away from the heating elements on a FORCED DRAFT incubator. I can't begin to tell you what to set a still air incubator to or where and how to measure the temp. 99.5 measured...

Leave it alone and relax! We have successfully hatched eggs incubated at a range of humidities. From what I can see now, we do best in our setup running completely dry until time to hatch, at which time we add the baby food jars of water to our hatcher (little giant is what we use to hatch in)...

Just make sure you calibrate your new digital controller. Almost NONE of them will be accurate when you set it up (if they are it's dumb luck). You should calibrate it with a digital pharmacy thermometer and then check it occasionally with the digital pharmacy thermometer.

Solid state relay is a non-mechanical device. It does not have ANY moving parts in it. You gotta realize, the controller pulses the output ON for fractions of a second every second to maintain the setpoint. This means the heater will turn on and off many hundreds of times per day...

These are the best tips I have for ANYONE who is incubating. I haven't been doing it for years, but I am a Chemist and Chemical Engineer. Temperature controls and measurement is something I do every day. Good luck and enjoy! Incubation tips... First, the single most important factor in...

Incubator design. This is my instructions. You can build the same using any materials available. I thought about my design and I thought I'd add the following info for those who are going to build it, more like how I'd suggest starting. First, I'd order the parts from the parts lists. The...

Very cool design, but I have some suggestions.... First, the light bulbs make a poor heat source, they are not intended to be turned on and off many times a day, they tend to fail like that. Second, the wafer thermostat.... Eek. Thermostats turn on when temp is low and turn off when...

Smell your incubator vents at least every few days. Anytime you smell something bad, open the bator and find it. Don't stop till you find it and get it out. Exploding eggs are VERY bad! Now that you have a mess, you gotta get it all out or you will have more trouble. Try hydrogen...

If they hatched that early, the temp is high!! Here, have a look at my tips, maybe you can find something useful. Incubation tips... A fan helps a lot both in making sure all the eggs are the same temp and makes it much easier to set the temperature. Computer fans can be used for very little...

First of all, momma hen gets off her eggs several times a day to eat drink and poop. However, she is never gone long and she brings their temp back up to her 99.5. They go through periods of "incubation" and "lower temp resting". However, the VAST majority of the time, they are incubating...

Humidity is 90? Where did you get the hydrometer? Is the bator inside the house and are you running airconditioning? We use NO added water in the incubator until it's time to hatch and then we bring it up to around 60% using 4-5 baby food jars with a sponge stuck in each one. Fill em...

What you measure with is just as important as where you measure. I use a digital pharmacy thermometer. Get one, test it on yourself, then use it on the incubator. Digital pharmacy thermometers are factory calibrated. Anything else can be off by 2 degrees or more. Also, fans are highly...

My auto watering system... I haven't watered my birds for 5 weeks now. That's right, I haven't watered anything but a few that were in quarantine (and I would fix that if it wasn't temporary). Here's what I did: Phase 1 I started out with Chicken Nipples. Cheap and very effective and...

Ok, I came up with a GREAT way to treat Splay legs in chicks. A while back we had a Mille Fluer D'uccle with splay and we did the band-aid treatment. It worked and he's doing great now, but it was a pain. Some band-aids would come off too easily anytime he got under the brooder light too much...