and the trouble just keeps on coming...

[sevenchickens]

Where your temps all over the place the whole time or just at lockdown? I haven't heard many negative things about the 1588, my husband told me after my hovabator arrived why didn't you get that other one you were looking at, the Brinsea!

Had I only known.

 

[WalkingWolf]

I get extremely excellent hatches, close to 100% using a cheap still air LG, the trick is setting it and forgetting it. A mother hen does not have perfect humidity, and does not have a constant temp, she doesn't even turn the eggs evenly like a incubator. Set your temp before loading the bator at 100F for the warmest part of the day, use bricks, rocks or water bottles in the bator to simulate a loaded bator. Once your bator is set leave it alone, it will not hurt for the eggs to drop a few degrees of a night. You can cover the bator of a night with towels to help hold heat, but I never bothered. I even had one hatch drop to 88F in a power outage and still had a almost perfect hatch.

 

[sevenchickens]

Y'all are making me feel soooo much better!! Thank you, Thank you!!!

 

[hinkjc]

The humidity is likely what is altering your temps. The 1588 is an electronic thermostat. It should hold to whateve preset temp you had it at. It really can't fluctuate much unless the thermostat is going bad, which is pretty unlikely in a brand new one. The thermostate is programmed to run to keep the temp to the preset settings. I've used these for years as hatchers and never had a temp fluctuate.

 

[sevenchickens]

Good to hear. All was going swimmingly for me until last night.

 

[WhoaNellie]

Seriously, this is making me feel so much better too!
I got up three times last night, just to check my temps. I couldn't sleep I was so worried.

I'm so glad I subscribed to this thread.

Please update after your hatch!!!!!!

 

[sevenchickens]

I hope that there is a hatch!! No movement in the eggs...Nothing. It's driving me crazy. At least when I was pregnant I could drink a big glass of OJ and that baby started to dance. But with this nothing, maybe I should turn into one of those women that put the eggs in their bra. Maybe then I'd actually be a cup size. Sorry I'm ranting!