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tashtash has the same as me: if u google electric thermostat incubatore this is the one that shows up... its got a pic of a bunch of blond kids looking at an incubator full of eggs or chicks on the box, but not a real name brand incubator... from the pic she posted i saw its like mine..
 
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this is my incubator.
 
hi tashtsash sorry i cant put up pics, but that is the exact one i have so read thru what i wrote, it should help u... we had horrible conditions but still hatched chicks so unless your eggs are dead to begin with, something shoudl work... better to be lsightly under temp then too hot... humidity seems to be less of a problem. worse comes to worse, just open the bator a few minutes to let the moisture out a bit... but keep the lid mostly on to keep heat where it should.

i put a thermometer in the little round hole (not the pipe thingythat pops up, but the black ringed hole) and thru the X in the upper screening... so the thermometer reads the temp that is near the top of the eggs, we use a thin candy thermometer so it fits in that hole very well. when the chicks are hatched they were trying to peck at the end of the thermomemter since it is red...

uh, storm has kicked in... wil have to shut computer down and prepare blankets for brooder and bator...
 
Great thanks. I hope things are going well with my babies. Yeah i do the same I put thermometer in that hole to and check. I hope all goes well with the storm not to much damage. If you can when it passes and you have a min I would like to chat more and find out what else you found works well with this incubator
 
hi... so we got snow, which happens here once every few years and is a real big deal; so we were also on 'lockdown' ; i live on kibbutz (like a commune) so the person in charge of cars put the car key locker on lockdown; couldnt go anywhere; also had several power failures and our side doesnt have a generator but nothing major, could have been owrse... temps in our house were about 15 celsius , with heating (primitive heating with radiator and spiral electric heater)...outside was about -2 which for us is like siberia :) but the brooder stayed at 39-30 and the bator staid steady since i kept a towel on it...

of the second batch, i have 10 chicks, one has spraddle leg, one has crooked leg but is doing well surprisingly, and several eggs still havent hatched this is like the 24 day...

both wells have water in them and the candy thermometer reads: 37. the past two days ive opened the bator to take out the last chick and to check and dispose of eggs (afraid of eggsplosions)...

meanwhile have four two week old chicks running around the house *(ichh); the house smells like, well, like a hatchery or a chicken coop.. but too cold to put anything outdoors yet...

this incubator seems to work best when u dont mess with it: just put the eggs in and let it go... i dont notice any differenc with humidity affecting the chicks: the ones that hatched, hatched on their own this time round, and the two with defects are probably genetic or egg oriented, not bator problems. the ones that havent hatched are also probably weak or defective chicks, or old or non fertile eggs... waiting til tomorrow and then will dumpt the old eggs and sterilize the whole thing and start to look for different breed eggs...

we actually saw one egg hatched, withthe little wet chick tumble out and start the fluffing process...

good luck.
 
Can someone point me to a article that describes the importantance of humidity in the incumbator. Just started my first batch and the temp is a steady 99 but the humidity keeps going up to about 78 or 80 percent and I can not get it to come down without opening the top. Than it slowly climbs back up
 

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