Hi! This is my first attempt at incubating, kind of a test run before doing it at school with my 1st graders. I bought an LG still air with no turner. I have a regular thermometer poking in thru one of the vent holes reading about 100-101, but its a little higher than the eggs. I went to Walmart tonight and bought a digital thermo/humidity device which I placed on the screen by the eggs. Its reading about 95 degrees and 33% humidity. Then just to drive myself insane, I brought in the digital meat thermometer in and placed the probe right next to one of the eggs. Well this afternoon I read and saw pics of someone who took egg cartons and placed a piece of pvc pipe under it so that they could just turn the egg carton to the other side to "turn" the eggs. I thought great! So I did that about 4:30 today. Well when I put the meat thermo next to one of the eggs that was elevated up since part of the carton is higher than the other, I got a reading of 106!!!!!
Now thats just one of the thermos, the regular mercury thermo isn't registering that on the other side of the bator. I quickly took the pvc out and now the eggs are in the cartons, but flat on the screen. What are my chances? The egg I had the probe next to is one of my bourbon red eggs....
