Homemade "wiggler" idea...PIC HEAVY

[redhen]

it is useful! and thanks for doing all this to show us!

maybe we can find a way to get a thermometer inside the egg for inside egg temp...maybe after the glue hardens try to make another small hole and stick a thermo. probe inside the egg or something?...its a great idea, i cant find any wigglers anywhere in my area! ...thanks!

 

[Kung Foo Chicken]

How about if you fill the egg with silicone caulk and break the shell away when dry and drill a hole up through the bottom to insert the probe? Would that be pretty accurate?


Just an idea. Never have used a wiggler?

 

[Akane]

Taping to the outside of the egg is not going to give you any better temp than just setting a thermometer on top of your eggs. You need to read the inside temp or all your work is for nothing.

If you didn't mind permanently losing a thermometer or probe you could just slide one in and then glue it. It would be difficult to clean it back off if you ever wanted it for something else again though. I would say just don't seal the egg but during hatch time you might have chicks getting into whatever you put inside the egg shell.

 

[Blackbird]

Would a probe attached to a thermometer even work? If you left it in the incubator a metal probe would get alot hotter than the inside of an egg, and if you did it outside of an incubator wouldn't the egg already have lost some heat by the time the thermometer got to an even close to high temp?

I'm just curious, as stated, I don't know how this works; I've incubated hundreds of eggs but I've never heard of this sort of thing.

 

[redhen]

i would use a digital probe..the kind attached to a long cord...i'd put the probe in egg and tape or glue it shut so the chicks cant get into the aloe vera..i would make a couple of these and have 2 in the bator just in case one went bad...i think its a pretty cool idea... and maybe even more reliable than a wiggler...

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I thought this was a great idea! The only thing missing is the thermometer, but wouldn't it work if you inserted the thermometer into the hole and then glued it in place? I haven't been able to find water wigglers here so THANK YOU - this might be the perfect solution!

 

[Leah-yes I know I'm crazy]

Hey how about going with the alovera gel...then using a small dowl and a thermometer sheath (the plastic bag kind that we used when we took our kids temps in not so nice ways) and then using the super glue to seal the sheath opening. Then a probe would be able to be inserted with no problem and you'd still have a egg mass that is similar to a real egg in consistancy.

 

[redhen]

Leah-yes I know I'm crazy :

Hey how about going with the alovera gel...then using a small dowl and a thermometer sheath (the plastic bag kind that we used when we took our kids temps in not so nice ways) and then using the super glue to seal the sheath opening. Then a probe would be able to be inserted with no problem and you'd still have a egg mass that is similar to a real egg in consistancy.

nice!

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I haven't taken my kids' temps in that way in a very long time, so I'm not following what you mean by thermometer "sheath" and plastic bag kind? Is it a digital or the oral/*ahem* kind with the mercury substitute, since they don't use that anymore?

I need a visual!!!

 

[Akane]

When you buy even oral thermometers often times they come with little plastic inserts to keep them sanitary. You slide the end into the plastic and then take the temp. You'd have to have a similar sized probe or thermometer but it could work.