14 Days First Time Hatching: Opinions on photos? Thanks!

[mommaschickens]

OK thanks again

 

[HEChicken]

Thank you for the replies. I thought mine was forced air, but I just looked at the description, and it doesn't actually say that! Ahhhh, I'm so mad at myself now!. The thermometer it came with is way off, so I have been using 2 digital thermometers I bought. The temp has been between 37-38.5 according to them. I don't have a way to calibrate them, but they agree for the most part. Should I bump the temp up to 101-102? Do you think they still have a chance? Also, they seem to be mostly on one side of the egg. Could that mean they are stuck? Humidity has been between 40-50%. Thanks again!

FWIW, I hate digital thermometers because they are notoriously inaccurate (when we are wanting to measure a precise temp like an incubating temperature). Once i had 5 different thermometers and between them they read a 5-degree difference from low to high! I now stick with analog which seem to be far more accurate. The bonus is that when you shop for digital you can't see the display because they don't have a battery installed yet. But when you shop for analog, you can generally see what they are reading. What I do is look on the rack to see which temperature is displayed by the most thermometers. For example, I was at Walmart and they had 20 of the same model. 15 of them showed a temp of 75 while the other 5 were either higher or lower. I went with the theory that the 15 were probably more accurate (which also made sense that Walmart would have their thermostat set to 75) and bought one of those. Problem solved. My incubation efforts once I threw away the digital and relied only on that one analog thermometer have been far more successful.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

FWIW, I hate digital thermometers because they are notoriously inaccurate (when we are wanting to measure a precise temp like an incubating temperature). Once i had 5 different thermometers and between them they read a 5-degree difference from low to high! I now stick with analog which seem to be far more accurate. The bonus is that when you shop for digital you can't see the display because they don't have a battery installed yet. But when you shop for analog, you can generally see what they are reading. What I do is look on the rack to see which temperature is displayed by the most thermometers. For example, I was at Walmart and they had 20 of the same model. 15 of them showed a temp of 75 while the other 5 were either higher or lower. I went with the theory that the 15 were probably more accurate (which also made sense that Walmart would have their thermostat set to 75) and bought one of those. Problem solved. My incubation efforts once I threw away the digital and relied only on that one analog thermometer have been far more successful.

LOL that's one way to do it.