egg-o-meter thermometer...take a look at this!!

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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I'm ordering one right now!! PLEASE keep us posted....I'm having dismal hatches and need all the help I can get.

 

[joebryant]

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I'm ordering one right now!! PLEASE keep us posted....I'm having dismal hatches and need all the help I can get.

I will, but I probably won't be doing any incubating for at least a month. I'll be doing lots more later once some young hens and roosters mature. Good luck!

 

[hangin'witthepeeps]

I have one. I ordered it back in the spring and it has worked really well. I calibrated it with the wall thermometer which is accurate. Just left it room temperature for 5 days and it was 0.5 degrees lower. So my egg temps read 99.4 pretty steady up to 100.0, which has provided me with good hatches since I got rid of the other LG incubator and now stick with my homemade one. I liked that it fits in with the eggs in the turner. It takes a day or two in the incubator to be accurate. The internal "material" is hard and heat needs to penetrate it.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Thanks for that info, Peeps.

So you went back to your homemade bator too? I'm having dismal hatches with my new hovabator (forced air) and considering going back to my homemade bator too.

 

[speckledhen]

So, has anyone completed a hatch with the new Egg-o-Meter yet? Was trying to recreate it with my AcuRite probe and a plastic egg filled with something...silicone, maybe? Was thinking that maybe gelatin, semi-gelled, would be a good material inside, but not sure if it would spoil or something, being a food product.

 

[popcornpuppy]

we bought one after seeing the original post about it. We are on lockdown today and will let everyone know how well the egg thermometer works at hatch time ( 10/14/09)

 

[speckledhen]

I ordered the Egg-Temp last week because of its tight accuracy rating, but thought I'd try to replicate the egg-o-meter with my old AcuRite and a fake egg. popcornpuppy,

for your hatch! Did you check another thermometer to see how close the new one is to that one?

 

[joebryant]

I have had mine in my Genesis 1588 while testing the incubator's temperature and humidity without any eggs for over a week now, and it's holding a consistent temperature of 99 degrees; that matches the four thermometers in the incubator with it. So far, I say that it's great; it lets me know that this incubator will keep the developing chick at the exact temperature throughout the entire hatch. I am learning from my two hygrometers that I'm going to have to adjust the size of the water surface/holder to lower the humidity some. I have not tested the humidity yet for the final three days using the extra water holder space. I might have to cover some of it to reduce the surface. I have also learned that a cup of water goes in the first part, and that it will last for six days. The second part holds one and a half cups, so there will never be any need to add water during the last three days if both holders are filled when the egg turners are removed on the eighteeenth day. I haven't tested both water holders' being filled with water yet for the last three days, so I don't know yet if I will have to adjust the water surface size to reduce the humidity the last three days.



I have two Geness 1588's, and I have only begun checking one's accuracy so far. Hopefully, I will get the same measurements on the egg-o-meter, hygrometers, and thermometers when I actually have eggs in the automatic egg turners.

 

[al6517]

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Made in China sorry I am out then, it did look promising till I saw where it was made.

AL

 

[joebryant]

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Made in China sorry I am out then, it did look promising till I saw where it was made. AL

I hope your unused money doesn't become obsolete while you wait for something to be produced in the U.S.