Egg temperature

[AdamWatts99]

i am using a little giant incubator, the "new" digital one of which it tell you your temperatures and humidity, well i am about a week into incubation and i have vein growth within some of my eggs, but i order a Spot Check thermometer and it is showing 93-94 degrees whereas my incubator shows 100 , what should i go by? I have some vein growth in my eggs,

 

[AmyLynn2374]

i am using a little giant incubator, the "new" digital one of which it tell you your temperatures and humidity, well i am about a week into incubation and i have vein growth within some of my eggs, but i order a Spot Check thermometer and it is showing 93-94 degrees whereas my incubator shows 100 , what should i go by? I have some vein growth in my eggs,

At a week you should havea little more than just veining. The incubators are known to be off and many have to set these things higher in order to get to the temp that they need. (If it's the one with the probe, that also causes it's own problems.) I would definitely go by the spot check. Here is a candling page so that you can compare your eggs to the growth they should be at: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation

 

[AdamWatts99]

Thanks very much, i will get my spot check to 99-100 degrees and restart on my eggs, my grandfather gets 5dozen a week so i will have no problem restocking my incubator

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I have the same incubator and I also use a Spot Check. Definitely do not trust the LG. Mine is around 3* off, on the low end. If I go by the Brinsea, I don't have any problems.

Good luck

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Thanks very much, i will get my spot check to 99-100 degrees and restart on my eggs, my grandfather gets 5dozen a week so i will have no problem restocking my incubator

is the bator still air or forced air??

 

[AdamWatts99]

It is still air, i do not have the fan

 

[AmyLynn2374]

It is still air, i do not have the fan

Still air incubators are recommended (I know the instructions with the machines differ,) to be maintained at 101-102 F taken near the tops of the eggs.

I have a couple informational reads for you if you haven't checked them out, the manuals that come with the bators are awful for successful hatches.
http://letsraisechickens.weebly.com...anuals-understanding-and-controlling-humidity (This is the method I use in my LG for humidity control.)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101 (This is a great article for overall hatching.)

 

[AdamWatts99]

Thanks for all the threads to read, i have upped my temperature of my incubator to 104 and my spot check shows 100.3, i will work for anywhere between 100.5- 101.5

 

[AdamWatts99]

I took my eggs out of my incubator and now the incubator and spotcheck both say 104.6, but before i took the eggs out the spotcheck said 100.3

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I took my eggs out of my incubator and now the incubator and spotcheck both say 104.6, but before i took the eggs out the spotcheck said 100.3

I would imagine, (not that this is my line of specialty) that the eggs absorb a good amount of heat. I had one side of my bator running warmer so I had at one point moved my eggs to the opposite side. I was surprised to find that w/o the eggs in that spot that it grew even hotter. So, I started to wonder if it was because there was nothing there to absorb the heat, To test my theory I added two DRY sponges to the hotter area. That area started evening out once there was mass there. So it would make sense to me that w/o anything to absorb heat it would raise the temp. I know when I set up my bator an get it steady before a hatch then put the eggs in I do eventually have to adjust up to get it back at the temp it was originally.