Emergency!!! Incubating help needed.

justjennifer

In the Brooder
7 Years
May 4, 2012
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South Eastern Kentucky
I bought a used incubator, it is a hova-bator pre-set model. Not the new digital kind, but it has a little switch with numbers to adjust the temps instead of the little switch at the top like the incubators I am used to. I put the eggs in Wed about 10 pm. Before putting the eggs in the temp stayed on 100.6 constantly for over 24 hours. After putting the eggs in the temps around the outer edges of the bator were saying 99-99.5 but the inner part(middle) of incubator didn't go above 96. So Thur morning I moved the eggs all around the walls of the bator, When doing that the corners of the bator was reading 99.9-100. The middle area is reading around 98 or so. This was with the setting of #3. Would it hurt now to bump the setting up to setting 4 now on Friday afternoon? Or sould i leave it on 3 and hope and keep the eggs around the outside edges and hope it is 99-100? Is my hatch already ruined? According to the instruction manual, moving the setting up 1 notch will raise the temp by .5 to 1 degree.

Help Please
 

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