Good evening everyone! Welcome Flowers! I am new to the thread also and I don't feel like I should welcome anyone yet! it isn't my place. But what he heck. Everyone here IS nice.
Anyway, just sharing some frustrations with the whole calibrating the thermometer thing. It didn't occur to me that a brand new incubator that says it will tell you the temperature and humidity would be inaccurate. So I set the quail eggs that came with it without realizing I need to figure it out.
So now I have two additional thermometers (I haven't actually bought any yet). And I have no idea which is right. I did the ice water test with the digital meat thermo and it read right on at 32 degrees.
I have an acu right weather humidity one and that one I didn't do the water test because I don't think I am supposed to submerge it.
The acu right one I have had in the incubator for a couple of days now at egg level and it reads 1 degree less than the hovabator. The meat thermometer reads a couple of degrees less, but I don't have a way to verify which one is actually right. The acu weather one is designed to measure the ambient air temperature and he meat one is designed to be stuck in something so may not be reading the air temperature correctly.
It sounds like if I run right out and get another new one I can't be positive it is reading correct either.......?
Who knew after all the reading and helpful information on here I still wasn't ready! Glad these are the quail eggs and not my chicken eggs
I am feeling your pain with the whole calibration thing lol. Haven't bought the hovabator yet and didn't know you needed all the extra thermometers etc. For now I think I'll stick to my uber broody Aseel
