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I'm nearly totally without experience at incubating , trying to learn what I can from others but wondering about something .
My mind is totally drawing a blank for the names of the two heat types , but one is from the air temperature and the other from light be absorbed into a surface . I know some incubators shine light on the eggs , others have a hidden heat source warming the air which in turn heats the egg . Are the extreem dark maran eggs being heated by light being absorbed and thus running a little hotter internally than lighter eggs ?
And best wishes for your hatch .
Are you thinking of still air vs forced air incubators? I've never heard of an incubator shining a light on the eggs to heat them.
No , I've noticed most small incubators being very well lit from a bulb over the eggs . Others are heated from a source behind the eggs and the warm air being circulated into the incubating area . While either can be forced air [ fan ] , I'm wondering if the dark shells are absorbing more light and running a little warmer as a result . The less efficient the incubator is at holding air temperature in , the more often the heat source would be triggered to run . If this is true , even though the eggs themselves are heating the air [ or loosing heat into the air ] , the darker ones will be running warmer than the lighter ones due to dark surfaces absorbing more light .
EDT : the only incubator I owned used a light bulb as a heat source , and it was located in the incubating area to heat the air , but wondering how that light affects the temps of the egg
Last EDT [ I promise LOL ] The lost term just surfaced : radient heat . I know about light bulbs designed to diffuse the light and called [ back in the day ] Coolbrite , and those infared bulbs designed for radient heating . What I don't know is how much radient heat is being generated from those incubators using a light bulb as a heat source or possibly just to illuminate the incubator for our viewing pleasure .
