Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I just seen your signature subhanalah!!! ha ha ha I need that in mine dont I!!!

My thoughts are with you on this too, I have my little salad cup of water in the bator with the probe in it and then I add the baby thermometer and it says my probes are accurite, I have tested them in ice water as well and seem to be good too! I wish I could afford those infared thermometers! but they cost a fortune! Oz suggested a spot temp a few pages ago, I like it. I may get it when I get some egg money in.

 

[subhanalah]

I bought a couple different pro exotics infrared temp guns. I like them.
Do they work for incubator readings?

P.s. I put that as my signature because I have had my keyboards taken away and touch screens are the downfall of man.

 

[cochins1088]

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I use oral thermometers to get the water to 100 degrees and I use multiple thermometers to ensure accuracy. Then I test the incubator thermometers.

Oral thermometers like these:




You're correct, you can calibrate thermometers with ice water to 32 degrees.

I've just always thought that if we're incubating eggs at 100 degrees, we should calibrate thermometers to 100 degrees. Take this information as a grain of salt because I don't know very much about thermometers. It's just what I've always done.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I know most of them stink

and hygros.... well we wont even go there!

 

[subhanalah]

I'd really like to know if anyone has used the temp guns. They are typically very accurate and can be calibrated out so no adjustments are necessary. The only downfall is you have to open the incubator to get a reading, and it takes the surface temperature, not the air temperature.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I'd really like to know if anyone has used the temp guns. They are typically very accurate and can be calibrated out so no adjustments are necessary. The only downfall is you have to open the incubator to get a reading, and it takes the surface temperature, not the air temperature.

opening the bator doesnt bother me, a hen has to eat doesnt she?

 

[subhanalah]

opening the bator doesnt bother me, a hen has to eat doesnt she? 

well, what I mean is, as soon as you open it, the inside cools rapidly. I just used it on my eggs, and it read from 99.0 to 93...HOPING that was due to the eggs cooling from being open!

P.s. it doesn't bother me either, I've been experimenting, and I've been opening it once a day. Well see how that goes!

 

[ozexpat]

infared direct onto the egg is an excellent method of measuring egg temp.

even the ear thermometers touching the egg

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

I did weigh the 2 viable duck eggs but since NTT scale isn't very sensitive I want able to tell if the weight had. changed.

 

[cochins1088]

I did weigh the 2 viable duck eggs but since NTT scale isn't very sensitive I want able to tell if the weight had. changed.

What unit of measurement are you using? I recommend you try weighing them in grams.