Farm Innovators 4250 Temp and Humidity Experiment

[pennyJo1960]

I have 1 barred left she has lost allot of weight but is like 7 and still feisty

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

@casportpony I know its been almost a year since your experiment, but can you tell me how many fertile eggs you had and how many total you had hatch?

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony I know its been almost a year since your experiment, but can you tell me how many fertile eggs you had and how many total you had hatch?

Dang, I don't remember.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Dang, I don't remember.

It's ok, It was a long shot. Someone got eggs from my and it was their first hatch and they were disappointed in their hatch rate (not fertility rate).

 

[casportpony]

That's too bad. I cringe when I hear about people using this incubator. I know some people get decent hatch rates, but with the huge temperature range in mine, I can't recommend it.

 

[007Sean]

That's too bad. I cringe when I hear about people using this incubator. I know some people get decent hatch rates, but with the huge temperature range in mine, I can't recommend it.

Mine has huge temp swings too! The 1st hatch was great...temp was steady, about 3 days until hatch on second batch, the temp spiked to 105°F, I don't know for how long but I loss the entire hatch. 58 eggs, all had pulled down and a couple had internally pipped.

 

[CrisAnderson27]

I just got this incubator. It doesn't seem very popular here! I don't ever intend to do 41 eggs in it (have 18 going in Thursday), but I have a feeling hatching math is much like chicken math.../sigh.



That said, I got it earlier than my eggs, because I wanted to run it. Extensively. So far I've found it very steady. I have a 4 channel pyrometer running 3 (currently...it's all I could find) probes to corners...and I switch them regularly to check for variations in both temps, and my readings.

So far, everything ranges from 99* even, to 101* or so. Hovering right at 99.6*-100* for the most amount of time. The corners read within about a half degree of each other at the widest split.

I do NOT have a probe in the center, but the factory readout had to be set to 103* to get my corners in range. When my other probe comes tomorrow I'll drill a small hole in the Plexi between the readout and heater/fan to insert that one. I'm really hoping the center isn't ACTUALLY 103*.

I also have a hygrometer/thermometer with Bluetooth coming as well. So more and better information should hopefully be available on that front also. It read 20% for 24hrs, until I added 4tbsp water. It's now at 32% and holding steady...all vents open. I'll be doing a dry hatch, so between 35 and 40% will make me happy.

If you all would like I'll keep posting numbers. Figure it can't hurt, and carries on with the spirit of the post.

 

[casportpony]

@CrisAnderson27, how did this hatch go?

 

[CrisAnderson27]

@CrisAnderson27, how did this hatch go?

It wouldn't hold within 3°F across the internal area...from center out. I ditched it in the first few days and switched to a Nurture Right 360

 

[casportpony]

Thanks so much for the update! How do you like your Nurture Right 360? FWIW, since this experiment mine has been sitting in the garage collecting dust.