My eggs are on day 15. I have a separate thermometer and hydrometer in the incubator because I don't trust my incubator. For the first 12 days I kept raising the temp because the inside thermometer would not get to 100. On day 12, my daughter and I candled a few eggs. We didn't want to do all 56 at once.
When we closed it back up, I moved the thermometer over two rows. The next time I checked it, it was reading 101! I'm thinking that it has been 101 the whole time now and I lowered the temp.
I know it will effect the hatch rate, but did I cook them all? A couple of the babies moved while we were candling, but I'm really worried that the heat was too high for too long. And I'm worried that I killed babies.
It is not a still air incubator, so I don't know why the thermometer registered a degree difference from left of center to the right of center.
Thoughts on how bad this is going to be and any advice would be welcome.
When we closed it back up, I moved the thermometer over two rows. The next time I checked it, it was reading 101! I'm thinking that it has been 101 the whole time now and I lowered the temp.
I know it will effect the hatch rate, but did I cook them all? A couple of the babies moved while we were candling, but I'm really worried that the heat was too high for too long. And I'm worried that I killed babies.
It is not a still air incubator, so I don't know why the thermometer registered a degree difference from left of center to the right of center.
Thoughts on how bad this is going to be and any advice would be welcome.
