Bator jumped temp to 106!!!

[evergreendors]

Ok so here I am with just 10 eggs in my bator, (Farm Innovator). We have 10 days LEFT. Yesterday, like every other day, I check it about 5 times a day for heat/humidity. When I set this new thing up I ran it for 3 days to get a handle on the bator's thermometer vs the cheap POC that came with it. Well they were more than 5 degrees off so I decide to put my probe meat thermometer in there. It was about 2 degrees off of the setting on the bator. Having said that, I've been candling and seeing progress so I am sure things are rolling along. Fast forward to yesterday, AM temp fine, lunch temp fine, somehow with working out side and the rest of my daily thing I missed late afternoon check. About 9 pm last night, I check and holy crap it said 106*. I took the lid off turned off my meat probe to let it re-calibrate and put lid back on. Bator was actually set on 102.5 as that was the number that corresponded with the 100 on my probe. After about 2 min I put the lid back on and the temp starting rising again. I repeated the same process. Lid off probe off, recheck. After 3-4 times the bator kept jumping up. SO I dropped the bator setting to 97* and waited. The temp began to fall and stayed steady at 97* on both bator AND probe. I pushed it back to 99.5 on bator setting and WTH it is EXACTLY the same on my probe.

Two questions...
1.what in carnation happened to push the bator to go nuts and then re-calibrate to the exact setting as what the probe reads (still spot on this AM)?
2. Are my chicks goners for a few hours of obscene temps?

 

[Mrs.SWhite89]

Mine jumps if the temperature wire is hit. Doesn't mean that it is really that high. I have a separate thermometer and hydrometer inside the incubator. Wait till the chicks hatch and peck the wire and hit it. It will jump all over the place.

 

[GotCoop]

Don't give up. It may have been short enough not to make difference. I had the opposite problem...power went out during a winter storm, no battery back-up. temp dropped to 96 before I pulled them all out and placed the eggs on my stomach under a sweat shirt and blankets. I played hen for 4 hours until the power came back. Still 8 of 11 made it.

 

[evergreendors]

Mine jumps if the temperature wire is hit. Doesn't mean that it is really that high. I have a separate thermometer and hydrometer inside the incubator. Wait till the chicks hatch and peck the wire and hit it. It will jump all over the place.

My probe ready the 106, the bator still said 102.5* (which in theory is too high, I know) but the probe, at that setting, was reading 100) So not sure i guess if it was the probe that went bonkers or the bator????

 

[Mrs.SWhite89]

My probe ready the 106, the bator still said 102.5* (which in theory is too high, I know) but the probe, at that setting, was reading 100) So not sure i guess if it was the probe that went bonkers or the bator????

I would say the bator....mine went crazy a few days ago upon lock down...it said 106 and it was 106 confirmed with another thermometer with the bator set at 99.5. Mine is also a farm innovators, but if the chicks hit the temperature wire it also goes nuts. Will be getting a different brand as soon as we get tax return back. Not that it's a bad bator, it works great just don't want to have to keep watching it and wonder what the tempnreally is as the hatching chicks hit the wires.

 

[evergreendors]

Right...this damn thing is brand new. I saved the box, perhaps it should go back?!

 

[joydix]

I think that might be a good idea to return. I have a cheap hocabator and hatched successfully 4-5 times but constant monitoring! I was an all digital. Saving up.