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[ronott1]

I think the topic of thermometer's has been discussed here but I can't find the discussion.

I'm looking to start another hatch today and was warming up my incubator and decided to check my thermometer. I artificial inseminate my dairy cows and had a card thermometer that is used in the water batch where the numbers illuminate when it reaches a certain temp. I also had a few dial thermometer's also for the water batch. All say a different temp. I read on another thread about calibrating in a ice water batch. Is that the way to go or are there better ways to calibrate with a higher temp?

Buy a Brinsea spot check. They are very accurate.

Also, they are made for incubation use--They only read a small range of temps because of that. A lot of people over the years have been amazed at how better their hatches go when they use one.

 

[gjensen]

A Brinsea spot check is good advice. A thermometer that you can calibrate using ice water is another option.

I agree with Ron.

I think the number one hatching problem is temperature, and number two is humidity. So having a good thermometer is crucial. It is a guessing game otherwise.

 

[hellbender]

Buy a Brinsea spot check. They are very accurate.

Also, they are made for incubation use--They only read a small range of temps because of that. A lot of people over the years have been amazed at how better their hatches go when they use one.

Yep...and I love that avatar!

 

[ronott1]

Yep...and I love that avatar!

Thanks!

It is Broody season.....

 

[Beer can]

We calibrate a lot of thermometers at work, dairy plant. For the cold temp thermometers they use ice water, calibrated with a state certified. For hot thermometers they use hot water bath, calibrated against a state certified one as well. When calibrating I think it is best to be as close to the range you want it to be most accurate.
The Brinsea spot check sounds like it would be the best. Having a small range of temperature gives it much more accuracy.

 

[ronott1]

We calibrate a lot of thermometers at work, dairy plant. For the cold temp thermometers they use ice water, calibrated with a state certified. For hot thermometers they use hot water bath, calibrated against a state certified one as well. When calibrating I think it is best to be as close to the range you want it to be most accurate.
The Brinsea spot check sounds like it would be the best. Having a small range of temperature gives it much more accuracy.

The brinsea spot check is calibrated using body temperature.

 

[Beer can]

The brinsea spot check is calibrated using body temperature.

???
I was wondering if they needed to be calibrated, how do you do it? Not everyone is the same temp??

 

[ronott1]

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I was wondering if they needed to be calibrated, how do you do it? Not everyone is the same temp??

Compare it to an accurate body temperature thermometer--The only time I have heard of them not being accurate was when Brinsea stored some in a warehouse in Florida that was not climate controlled. The battery contacts were corroded so they had to be cleaned and a new battery installed.

 

[Beer can]

I go by reviews and people's experience, only heard good things. I'll have to get one.

 

[Mini Meat]

The backyard flocks in Washington and Oregon were euthanized after necropsies were done on chickens that had died suddenly. The sudden deaths were found to be from AI and the remaining flock members euthanized. At least that's what I'd gathered from all of the talk on the PNW groups that I'm a part of.

The furor here over AI has died down significantly now. It just hasn't been as big a deal as people thought it would be, kind of like the whole ebola thing. There aren't any new cases in Oregon and I haven't heard about any new ones in Washington. The most recent case was down in California on a free-range turkey farm.

So this may be a stupid question, but if they slaughter the survivors, how is the species supposed to build immunity? It seems that birds that can survive would be valuable. Im no immunologist but...?

I understand that they want to keep it from spreading. Why not quarantine?