HELP INCUBATOR TEMPATURE

[cleoandtheflock]

Help the incubators temputure is dropping really fast all of a sudden coincidentally right as our 2 eggs start to pip help!
It’s a Brinsea Mini Advance

Ignore the day 2 thing

 

[cleoandtheflock]

Please help it’s our first time and it’s really strange

 

[cleoandtheflock]

It’s getting into 70s

 

[paneubert]

They are pipping? If so, and if you have any space at all in the incubator, I would put in a small container of really hot water. Replace as needed to keep temp up. That being said, you are at the end of the incubation, so some lower temps are ok....not ideal....but ok. If you can't keep the temp up, I would remove the chicks as they hatch and get them in the correctly temperature set brooder.

 

[Spartan22]

Is that a pretty old Brinsea? It could be the fan not working

 

[cleoandtheflock]

I don’t know it just started

 

[paneubert]

Also, are you sure the temp is actually low and not just seeing a bad temp sensor? Does it seem like the heating element is no longer working at all and the temp is just slowing cooling?

 

[cleoandtheflock]

Let me check the fan

 

[cleoandtheflock]

Yes the fan stopped now what

 

[paneubert]

Is that a pretty old Brinsea? It could be the fan not working

This is also a good question. Could be that the heating element is not having air blown on it, meaning it is hot up top, but cooler wherever the sensor is.