How often should I be rotating the eggs throughout the incubator? When should I start? I thought the first so many days were very important? The guide I'm following has a drawing of the air sac at 10 days so I was going to leave them until then. Should I rotate them before that?
The only other thermometers we have are a digital infrared one but I question the accuracy of that, think it's an Etekcity Lasergrip 800, and a wireless hygrometer/thermometer I use for the chicken coop with the base station hanging on the wall in the kitchen. I think it's likely too big to fit...
I might call the local Agri-Coop here and see if they have a thermometer I can buy. They carry brooding stuff so I assume they would have one.
What should I do with the temperature until then? Now I'm concerned I have no idea what the real temperature is.....
Hey everyone,
So a little background, we incubated and hatched chicks out twice last year. We used 2 different forced air incubators we purchased from Amazon. They are both sold by a number of different Chinese vendors and don't seem to have a "brand name". The first was a 16 egg small one I...