Enough heat?

WestCoastCoop

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Mar 30, 2010
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It has been almost 24 hours since I put my 26 eggs into my homemade incubator. I have 2 thermometers in there, one is furthest away from the heat and one is very close, so I can monitor the eggs from all positions. The temp nearest the heat has never gone past 100F but the other thermometer stays at about low 90's. When I turn my eggs I have been swapping the ones nearest the heat to the cooler side and vice versa to try and make sure no one gets too hot or too cold. I'm more concerned about them getting too hot opposed to not hot enough, so I'm hoping this is the best way to go (a titch bit too high but less than 102 on the hot side, and I'm trying to get the cooler side hotter, but just below the 99.5) Does that sound logical?

Also when can I first candle them?

Cheers
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That is a problem them going from hot to cool, when the chicks hatch they might be malformed
 
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Okay good to know! I have only moved them around twice so hoping no harm done as of yet. I'm thinking if I could put a second light bulb in the other side and just have them both at lower temps that would be better, but I can't exactly take my eggs out now to fiddle around with it. Should I just leave the cool ones where they are and the warm ones where they are and keep my fingers crossed?

(I have a homemade incubator, hence the bizarre issues lol
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I know this isn't the time to mess with things but for future use.... If your heat source is not shielded you could possibly be having radiant heat from your source heating part of the area, and just the warm air heating the rest. That may account for the different temp's in different areas.
 
That makes sense. I did a little fixing/fiddling and it seems to be a little more even now, but I'm slightly panicked that I may have fried the couple of egg that have been near the light source...
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time will tell I guess
 

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