button quail chicks keep hatching and dying...HELP PLEASE

[joe125]

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Ditto X 3.34 billion. You can never have to many thermometers, and still air requires higher temps, than circulated air!

 

[Mek]

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Ditto X 3.34 billion. You can never have to many thermometers, and still air requires higher temps, than circulated air!

Are you using a digital thermometer or a glass one?
My brother explained this to me but I can't remember exactly how he said it ... but the digital ones take the last previous reading as the last measure to compare with so they will be inaccurate ( like photocopying a photocopy).

 

[joe125]

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Ditto X 3.34 billion. You can never have to many thermometers, and still air requires higher temps, than circulated air!

Are you using a digital thermometer or a glass one?
My brother explained this to me but I can't remember exactly how he said it ... but the digital ones take the last previous reading as the last measure to compare with so they will be inaccurate ( like photocopying a photocopy).

That's called replicative fading a (Star Trek) term. A copy of a copy of a copy...etc.. In exact scientific terms he may be correct about reading exact temps at any given second, or fraction thereof , however, every X min. a digital thermometer is giving you it's best guess at the temp. in your bator. Both glass alcohol/mercury based thermometers and digital can be incorrect. For hatching purposes, a +/- 1 deg.F. temp. and +/-10% humidity are generally innocuous. However, the difference between 99.5 and 101.5 could really make a difference between a thermal only, and circulated air incubator. One uses external convection, the other uses internal convection to to cook the egg to delightful hatchyness.

 

[300hj]

so i have a new thermometer like this one
http://www.petco.com/product/9425/P...=MM_ReptileSupplies_TemperatureControlHeating
and while it says 100 degrees, the thermometer that came with the incubator says 102... which should i trust?
(and yes its for reptiles but it was the only thermometer there)

 

[snyd08]

not sure you should trust either. temps are the most important thing IMHO in the incubating process. (others may disagree) but i would invest in a quality thermometer. just so your not second guessing...