Farm Innovator Pro Series 4250

[lps1215]

What temp does everyone run their farm innovator pro series at? I realize this incubator is not the best and I plan to get a new one after this hatch. Temps shown on the screen are way off but I have a hygrometer placed in there to accurately measure temp/humidity. I have had horrible hatch rates/no development and now I know why. It's so off. I have it set at 110° on the bator and the hygrometer is reading 101.1. No eggs are currently in there. Trying to get it dialed in before I set my shipped eggs. I would like to experiment with "dry hatching". The humidity is currently sitting at 28.9% with no added water. What do you run temp/humidity for dry hatching?

 

[arianna7]

when i run my dry incubator i do as follows
99.5°F (37.5°C) for the temp and about 30- 40 humidity.
i dont have the same one you have but thats what i do

 

[Ridgerunner]

I do not have that incubator but it appears to have a fan so it is a forced air and it has an auto egg turner.

I never trust any incubator thermometers or thermostats until they have been calibrated, even the most expensive ones. There are too many stories on here about where they were preset incorrectly. For the same reasons I never trust any thermometer unless it has been calibrated. I use a calibrated medical thermometer to calibrate mine.

For a forced air incubator you want the temperature to be 99.5 F (37.5 C). You can be off a couple of tenths of a degree and still get great hatches but try for a calibrated correct temperature.

 

[lps1215]

I do not have that incubator but it appears to have a fan so it is a forced air and it has an auto egg turner.

I never trust any incubator thermometers or thermostats until they have been calibrated, even the most expensive ones. There are too many stories on here about where they were preset incorrectly. For the same reasons I never trust any thermometer unless it has been calibrated. I use a calibrated medical thermometer to calibrate mine.

For a forced air incubator you want the temperature to be 99.5 F (37.5 C). You can be off a couple of tenths of a degree and still get great hatches but try for a calibrated correct temperature.

Around/under the heating element the hygrometer is reading the same temp as show on the incubator temp reader. If i move the hygrometer around the incubator away from the heating element i'm getting a variance in temp by 5-10°. It holds 40 eggs I will only be setting around 20. Would you suggest just putting them under the heating element where I know it's "accurate" with less temp variance? I never realized it was that off in different parts of the incubator.

 

[Ridgerunner]

It sounds like you do not have a fan with your incubator or it is not working. A fan should mix the air so the temperature is the same anywhere in there. The link I saw showed that model with a fan.

If you don't have a working fan then you have what we call a still air. Warm air rises so you will get different temperatures at different elevations in there. The recommendation for a still air is that you take the temperature at the top of the eggs and that temperature should be 101.5 F (38.6 C). Just the difference in height of the center of the eggs to the top is that much. It's easy to see where you could get your 5 to 10 variance.

I hope that is your issue. Good luck.