Homemade Egg-o-Meter Works!

[Whitehouse Quail]

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What super de duper incubator thermometer is this?

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

Also, would silicone caulk work? Do you think?

 

[speckledhen]

I dont know if caulk would work or not. I used 100% silicone and it seems to be working just fine in the batch I'm currently incubating. The accurate incubator thermometer I bought is the Spot-Check (also, called the Egg-Temp, depending on if it's Brinsea or GQF). It's accurate to +/- .18 degree (point one-eight)

 

[jenlynn4]

Thats great speck!!! Where did you get the sylicone???? I may want to try one myself (if you wouldnt mind that is)

JEN

 

[speckledhen]

You just go to any hardware dept and get a tube of 100% silicone (not siliconized caulk, which may work, but I don't know for sure). It's usually around the paint aisles or with adhesives. It's working quite well and I'm relying on it in the bator right now. Hey, I didn't invent this so no patent here. Hope you can get one made, Jen. What is good about this over a water weasel is that this fits in the turner just like any egg.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I did the same thing simply by blowing out an egg, inserting a probe and water, and plugging it back up.
It gives an accurate reading of internal egg temperature.
That's good to know... but in my incubators, I'd rather measure air temp at egg height and if air temp at egg height is right, so will be internal egg temp.
If you can keep correct air temps at egg height, it is neither here nor there what internal egg temps are, because they will be right.
edited to add: For what it's worth, I'm using meat/cooking thermometers in my incubators because I have a pile of brand new digitals that are just flat inaccurate and I don't trust them.

Lisa

Lisa

 

[speckledhen]

Lisa, it was just an experiment. I don't have a water weasel in every batch of eggs and you don't need one, you're right. At the moment, I'm alternating my Spot Check thermometer between the two bators I have going just to be sure everything is okay. I love that thermometer and I can measure the temp at any height, depending on how far down I drop the probe in any hole in the bator. I just wanted to see if we could make one of those egg-o-meter things and it does pretty well.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Cn! Edited after / while you posted.
What do you think of learning to read a wet-bulb?
Wet bulb humidity readings seem more trustworthy than this digital stuff that is so often wrong right out of the box and needs recalibrating after every hatch.
When I started hatching I thought why 'learn' that when you can buy the gizmo that tells you digitally what temp and humidity are...
Now I want to learn how to read and interpret a wet bulb.

Lisa

 

[speckledhen]

I think that would be a great idea, Lisa. Maybe I'll put that on my "have to learn to do" list.

 

[Soonerguy33]

I think this is a great idea! great job Speckled