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It rained a bit this morning, dried out, then rained again when I went out to get the mail.

I want to say THANK YOU to Ron for suggesting the Brisea spot check therometer. I wasn't trusting the ones in the cabinet because the other two said differently. Well, the spot check got here, I put it in, and sure enough - I have been running at 97 degrees...
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, just like the inside thermostat said.. Well its up to 99-100.5 now, I adjusted the thermostat. I had lowered it because one of the other ones was reading 104 and that scared me. I took that one out...

I suspect this last batch is going to be a tad late... Day 21 today and not a pip/peep, nothing.
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At least now I know why!
 
On days when it's warm out (85-90+) can I take my chicks outside for a while and let them run/scratch/play around in a pen for a while? Or do they need to be a certain age before they can take little fieldtrips outside?
 
ChickNmamma said:
It rained a bit this morning, dried out, then rained again when I went out to get the mail.

I want to say THANK YOU to Ron for suggesting the Brisea spot check therometer. I wasn't trusting the ones in the cabinet because the other two said differently. Well, the spot check got here, I put it in, and sure enough - I have been running at 97 degrees...
he.gif
, just like the inside thermostat said.. Well its up to 99-100.5 now, I adjusted the thermostat. I had lowered it because one of the other ones was reading 104 and that scared me. I took that one out...

I suspect this last batch is going to be a tad late... Day 21 today and not a pip/peep, nothing.
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At least now I know why!
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I always trust the spot check--It is very accurate and the hatches are great with it checking the temps.
 
Okay, I have to say that Little Giant incubators are not my friend. At school today, the two (uncalibrated) thermometers were five degrees different. Both said the temps were in the nineties. I went to another classroom and checked out their thermometer. It said 100 degrees. I asked e teacher if it was calibrated. She said no, but that she had been using it for twelve years without problems. Sounded good to me, so I borrowed it and stuck it in our incubator. Checked it about ten minutes later and saw that it was reading almost 110 degrees! Freaked me out, so I turned the knob down to lower it. Checked it about fifteen minutes later and it was reading 100 degrees. Warned the teacher that I had changed the temperature, and that she should check it periodically. Came back two hours later, and it was down to 94 degrees! Bumped it up a little bit and came back 20 minutes later, no change. Bumped it up a tiny bit more and came back 45 minutes later and it was up to about 95 degrees. Bumped it up a tiny bit more and came home and made a water wiggler and calibrated my probe thermometer. I think I'm going to have to bring the darn thing home tonight because what I imagine will happen is the temperature going up to egg cooking land while no one is there to keep an eye on it. GAAHH!
 
redriver said:
Okay, I have to say that Little Giant incubators are not my friend. At school today, the two (uncalibrated) thermometers were five degrees different. Both said the temps were in the nineties. I went to another classroom and checked out their thermometer. It said 100 degrees. I asked e teacher if it was calibrated. She said no, but that she had been using it for twelve years without problems. Sounded good to me, so I borrowed it and stuck it in our incubator. Checked it about ten minutes later and saw that it was reading almost 110 degrees! Freaked me out, so I turned the knob down to lower it. Checked it about fifteen minutes later and it was reading 100 degrees. Warned the teacher that I had changed the temperature, and that she should check it periodically. Came back two hours later, and it was down to 94 degrees! Bumped it up a little bit and came back 20 minutes later, no change. Bumped it up a tiny bit more and came back 45 minutes later and it was up to about 95 degrees. Bumped it up a tiny bit more and came home and made a water wiggler and calibrated my probe thermometer. I think I'm going to have to bring the darn thing home tonight because what I imagine will happen is the temperature going up to egg cooking land while no one is there to keep an eye on it. GAAHH!
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I hope you can get it stable!

Very scary.....
 

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