Help please!!!

[Buster]

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Over 105 is my "worry temperature". Still, I've had mine go that high after getting home from work. I thought all was lost, but I still hatched several out. With the styrofoam bators I like 100 to 101. That's just me though and I'm no expert. I also prefer the digital thermometers. Mine is an indoor/outdoor from Wal-Mart, set on outdoors with the little thermo-wire going through the vent, hanging about the mid point of the eggs.

Ok that makes sense. I've just always preferred to be too low than high because I seem to avoid curled feet, etc. that way.

 

[BantamMom13720]

You'll be fine... don't worry, they have a tendency to hatch through all kinds of "human error". Either take the average of the two, or follow the advice of checking it in ice. You can't really "trust" any of them because the room temp makes the bator fluctuate. Twenty or so days from now, you'll be a seasoned hatcher... with babies!

Good luck.

 

[wjallen05]

I just put the thermometer in a glass of ice water and it read 40 degrees.

So... basically I've fried my eggs, right?