Chick eggtopsy - what went wrong? **GRAPHIC**

[QUOTE="rmattise, post: 22913809, member: 266531"

Now an equipment malfunction on the other hand, that's possible. I doubt it, because it's working just fine now, but it's theoretically possible that it experienced a temperature spike for unknown reasons while I was out of the house. My hatcher is one of those cheap foam 'bators, while my actual incubator is a reliable brinsea octagon eco.
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I am doing a hatch now, and my Brinsea 28 EX is doing marvelous. I bought a Hova bator Genesis 1588 for extra eggs I had, also highly rated, and it worked perfectly....until it didn't.
The thermostat failed, raised the temperature to 122*, all the while saying everything was fine at the set temp. If I didn't have 2 other thermometers reading differently, and a little bit of experience at what the eggs should feel like at the correct temp vs what they did feel like, I would have never known anything was wrong. All 9 of my Salmon Favorelle eggs got cooked to death.

We're in a brand new house now, with all new appliances. Except for a couple of battery operated ones. all of the clocks in our house now reset automatically when power goes back on after an outage. Haha, like it never even happened. :thumbsup
 
I am doing a hatch now, and my Brinsea 28 EX is doing marvelous. I bought a Hova bator Genesis 1588 for extra eggs I had, also highly rated, and it worked perfectly....until it didn't.
The thermostat failed, raised the temperature to 122*, all the while saying everything was fine at the set temp. If I didn't have 2 other thermometers reading differently, and a little bit of experience at what the eggs should feel like at the correct temp vs what they did feel like, I would have never known anything was wrong. All 9 of my Salmon Favorelle eggs got cooked to death.

We're in a brand new house now, with all new appliances. Except for a couple of battery operated ones. all of the clocks in our house now reset automatically when power goes back on after an outage. Haha, like it never even happened. :thumbsup
If only I was made of money... I'd have all Brinsea products exclusively. That incubator has never once let me down. Although, with how finicky these foam ones are, I could probably save money by just getting it over with and buying another one 😭
 

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