Heat sink experiment

[pkw]

The only incubator I have ever used is a little giant still air incubator and I have had some pretty good hatches. The only time I had really bad hatch rates was on shipped eggs.

 

[aceoftrumps]

UPDATE:

Looks like the stones are working. Temp is steady at 99.2/99.4.....so I'm happy with that. Got 36 eggs and trying for my third batch of chicks. Got my finger crossed for 100%.

Kurt

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Kurt! That's great to hear! I thought of that when I was setting up a LG as a hatcher this morning --- but couldn't remember where my bags of half-marbles are.
Good luck with the hatch!

Lisa

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

I put Mason jars of 100*F water in my LG for my last hatch, and the temps were VERY stable.

That works too. I have all sizes glass spice bottles I use to keep eggs in hatcher from rolling into the cooler corners.

Lisa​

 

[KatieBugg]

I have a homemade bator and have lots of heat sink in it, it trluy maintains a very steady temp. The biiggest heat sink is a full size cassarole dish with a lid filled with water underneath my eggs along with a bunch of gladware containers filled with water underneath the eggs. On top I have several glass jars filled with water. My bator runs with a 25 watt always on light and then A 100 watt hooked up to a water heater thermostat. There was ALOT of trial and error to get the temps figured out with it, but the heat sink does work VERY well!

 

[galanie]

Quote:
I've lost my marbles often with this hobby. Not to worry, things are generally better without them