6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[gilchicken]

So I don't think my thermometer is reading the right temperature inside the incubator. . I saw somewhere where they have small thermometer sitting on the eggs. . I went to Walmart last night and I got this. .

Do you think this is going to read the temperature any better?
This HAL thing is to stressful! ..I am getting to attach to those eggs. .. lol

 

[Jucknath]

So I don't think my thermometer is reading the right temperature inside the incubator. . I saw somewhere where they have small thermometer sitting on the eggs. . I went to Walmart last night and I got this. .

Do you think this is going to read the temperature any better?
This HAL thing is to stressful! ..I am getting to attach to those eggs. .. lol

I would check the calibration of the thermometer. I try to look at all of them on the shelf and get one reading the same as others also.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

@gilchicken Put an oral thermometer next to the other one and see what it reads and adjust from there.

These are the two best thermometers I've ever used.

http://thermoworks.com/products/low_cost/rt301wa.html

https://www.brinsea.com/p-394-spot-check-digital-incubator-thermometer.aspx

 

[StarMeKritten]

My broody hen sitting on her eggs. She prefers to brood on the floor rather than in the nest box.

Here's a better photo of her before she went broody.

Here she is with the last chicks that she hatched. She raised them until they were about 3 months old. As you can see, the black sex link is bigger than her adopted mom here. The frizzle is mom's roommate and assists with raising the chicks. The 3 little buffish girls hatched from mom's eggs. Dad was a buff orp that I don't have any more.

 

[Roan]

This will work to print out but is there an easier way to convert it to an excel spread sheet? I can make a sheet then plug in the formulas by hand but didn't know if there was another way?

Hey, sorry I missed your post. The Incubation Worksheet is meant to be used with a spreadsheet, however I have not got the entire spreadsheet done yet which is intended to make all areas of chicken management...manageable. LOL

I am using OpenOffice and as far as I know, it can be opened with Excel. I would be interested to find out.

If you'd like the spreadsheet as is, pm me with your email address and I can send it to you. Please do not post email or other personal data in here.

 

[Aphrael]

So I don't think my thermometer is reading the right temperature inside the incubator. . I saw somewhere where they have small thermometer sitting on the eggs. . I went to Walmart last night and I got this. .

Do you think this is going to read the temperature any better?
This HAL thing is to stressful! ..I am getting to attach to those eggs. .. lol

I use a medical thermo to test all my other thermos against so I can be confident in my incubator temps. I got one on amazon for around 5 bucks that is guaranteed accurate within 2/10s of a degree. Well worth it for peace of mind.

 

[hockeydad6791]

STILL AIR INCUBATOR
We are moving eggs around in the still still incubators already? I thought it was every 3 or 4 days. I haven't done that before and I think it has caused problems.
When you move eggs around do you use a pattern so you know you are moving them around good enough? My chicken helper and I were thinking we would move in rows. Left to right then top to bottom.

My eggs get a new spot in my LG every time we turn them.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Actually @ronott1 I stole the oral thermometer idea from you. When you posted it once I felt like slapping myself in the head - a la "I could have had a V8".

They're super accurate and 98.6 is so close to 99.5.

 

[LemonMeringue]

My eggs get a new spot in my LG every time we turn them.

Our incubator has an automatic turner. But I have decided on moving them every 2 days. I'm sure it will be an improvement over previous hatches where I didn't move them around the incubator at all.

 

[ronott1]

Actually @ronott1 I stole the oral thermometer idea from you. When you posted it once I felt like slapping myself in the head - a la "I could have had a V8".

They're super accurate and 98.6 is so close to 99.5.

Looks a bit like an oral thermometer--with a wire in it....