Erin80
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- Apr 16, 2017
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This is my first time and I’m feeling super worried I have screwed it up.
The incubator temp was reading 37.7 or 37.8. Today I got a thermometer and hygrometer, so I put them in there. Thermometer is reading 34. So I put another thermometer in. Third one is reading 36. Up until now (day 11), I have been believing the incubator thermometer. I candled the eggs last night and most have a clear baby moving around inside with good air cells. The addition of the two extra thermometers have me now bumping the incubator up in small increments to try to get to a point where the average is acceptable for incubation.....because currently the average is too low (yet the eggs look fine). I am horribly confused now....and worried I’m going to cook the eggs. Should I put it back to where it was? Or keep bumping it to try to find an acceptable average?
The incubator temp was reading 37.7 or 37.8. Today I got a thermometer and hygrometer, so I put them in there. Thermometer is reading 34. So I put another thermometer in. Third one is reading 36. Up until now (day 11), I have been believing the incubator thermometer. I candled the eggs last night and most have a clear baby moving around inside with good air cells. The addition of the two extra thermometers have me now bumping the incubator up in small increments to try to get to a point where the average is acceptable for incubation.....because currently the average is too low (yet the eggs look fine). I am horribly confused now....and worried I’m going to cook the eggs. Should I put it back to where it was? Or keep bumping it to try to find an acceptable average?
), the temp at the top can be very different from the bottom where the eggs are, at least according to my manual. My bator’s manual actually recommends setting the temp to 103.5F to maintain 99.5F at egg level. I’m terrified I’m going to cook my eggs!
