Harris Farms Nurture Right 360 Incubator is AMAZING!

[Pullety]

My first batch of shipped eggs are on their way. Officially addicted

 

[yesterDAYNE]

I've got 8 days left on my turkey eggs, and things are going great so far! Sat 12 in it, and 8 ended up fertile, the others never developed at all. Currently as of yesterday all the babies are still alive, saw them kicking around in the shells. Not going to touch them until they hatch, and I'm excited!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Currently happening in my incubator. 15 hatched and 1 to go!

 

[Pullety]

Yes, it was fairly new, two years ago. The instructions to calibrate it were right on the card it was hanging on too. I even rechecked it after a year and it still looked good but recalibrating was super simple if needed. I bought a large pack of the cheap digital thermometer/hygrometers on Amazon and checked each against the meat thermometer. It was a good purchase for the price because it offers multiple thermometers for you to check against and it's pretty obvious when one goes bad if you have more than one. After a couple of years of using them, I am now down to a few but I would buy them again and just keep checking them against the little meat thermometer, lol.

Pretty sure it's this one. No batteries, not digital, and very reliable for the past couple of years!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-Instant-Read-Meat-Thermometer-00997/14913174

Very on sale at the moment

 

[Pullety]

Not a silly question. Mine have all been great but it's always good to check. There can be lemons no matter what you get in life, it just happens, so it's always good to double check. I personally get a cheapo meat thermometer from Walmart that I calibrate and check against the digital thermometers (I also get cheap thermometers, lol). I'm drawing a blank on the name but there is a fancy thermometer that everyone seems to like.

These are mine.
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What’s the brand of these hygrometer/thermometers?

 

[Pullety]

Meat thermometers are great because they're easy to calibrate. I usually check all of my digital thermometers against my calibrated meat thermometer. Lol

What’s your method for calibrating your meat thermometer?

 

[Pullety]

For shipped eggs I allow them to rest upright for 8-24 hours (usually the lesser because I feel like age is more important than resting and if they're scrambled no amount of resting the eggs will get them to develop). After resting the eggs I place them directly in the turner and incubate as usual. I've had really great hatches doing this. IF the air cell is completely detached, like floating around freely, then I would use a carton to place them upright until the air cell re-attaches itself. If the air cells are saddled or "jiggly" I still put them in the horizontal turner. Turning at the beginning of incubation is very important.

https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/the-biology-behind-egg-turning

You still put ones like this into the turner from the beginning yes?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

You still put ones like this into the turner from the beginning yes?
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Whoa, is that line showing the air cell is nearly completely detached down the length of the egg? I would keep that one upright to see if it will reattach before laying it down. Regular saddled air cells I do lay down though, yes.

 

[aart]

You still put ones like this into the turner from the beginning yes?

I'm not sure I'd even try to hatch that.
Is that a chicken egg, fresh laid or shipped or....??

Whoa, is that line showing the air cell is nearly completely detached down the length of the egg?

It's huge, detached or not.

 

[Pullety]

I'm not sure I'd even try to hatch that.
Is that a chicken egg, fresh laid or shipped or....??


It's huge, detached or not.

They were shipped.

Maybe I didn’t do the tracing right. I kind of followed the bubble to see how far it would go and traced the extent of where it went.