Do you use a secondary temp/humidity meter?

[peachRN]

I keep reading that you should always double check your incubator's humidity and temperature because they might be inaccurate. I bought these little meters on Amazon and they had pretty good reviews, but after 4 hours in the incubator (a brand new never used Nurture Right 360), the incubator says 100° and 24-25% humidity while the separate meter says 99.2° and between 10%-14% humidity--and that's after I added water to the incubator to see what would happen. I set another one on top of the incubator and it's reading 18% humidity. My house's thermostat is saying humidity is around 20%.

I'm leaning toward trusting the incubator and just getting rid of the extra temp/humidity meter. Does anyone have a good solid brand that they use to double check, or do you just trust your incubators?

I'll add that there are no eggs in the incubator, I'm just doing a test run to see how it holds temp/humidity.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Temp is vital, humidity is secondary, definitely have a couple thermometers, those look like the ones I use, I have 3 and as long as they are within 0.5 degrees of one another I’m happy (temp varies from 99-100.5 depending on location in incubator, room temp, drafts, etc). Humidity can be hard to control n little bubble incubators, the nr360 is better than my Amazon cheapo but you want to aim for an average, sudden drops or spikes are fine (except after eggs hav pipped!). Incubation is more art than science, find what works for you, learn from your mistakes and keep trying!